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5 000 000 Roubles Banque Nationale de Géorgie
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Géorgie (საქართველოს ს.ს. რესპუბლიკის ბანკი) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central ornamental vignette at left with floral and geometric guilloche patterns flanking the denomination numerals '5 000 000' printed vertically. The upper portion carries the bank title in Georgian script and in French ('BON de la BANQUE NATIONALE de GEORGIE'), with the text body in Georgian confirming the note's validity. Date '31 марта 1922 г.' (31 March 1922) appears at lower right, accompanied by three manuscript signatures of bank officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | საქართველოს ს. ს. რესპუბლიკის ბანკი ვალდებულება BON de la BANQUE NATIONALE de GEORGIE 5.000.000 მან. ბანკის მმმართველი შტამარა კონტროლირა შტამარა მოლარეე დ 31280 |
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Georgia's national bank issued this note during one of the most chaotic monetary episodes in Caucasian history. By 1922, the Georgian Democratic Republic had already fallen to Soviet forces — the Red Army took Tiflis in February 1921 — and the continued issuance of Georgian notes into 1922 reflects the administrative lag of monetary transition rather than any functioning independence.
The denomination itself tells the story: five million roubles was a symptom of runaway inflation that consumed the entire region in the early 1920s, driven by wartime destruction and Soviet monetary policy inherited from the Russian collapse.