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5 Kopecks Baku
| Issuer | Baku City Council (Бакинская Городская Управа) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The Baku municipal arms vignette occupies the upper centre, rendered in a stamp-like engraved style. A large numeral '5' sits within a wreath of laurel branches at centre, flanked by ornamental scrollwork. The denomination legend 'КОП.' appears in a rectangular panel at the base, with the value inscription 'ПЯТЬ КОП.' on ribbon banners flanking the arms above. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out in a plain typographic style within a rectangular border with decorative guilloche ornament at the top. The issuing authority name is printed in two lines at the top, followed by a statement of legal equivalence with divisional coinage in pre-reform Cyrillic script. |
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Baku in 1918 was a city in genuine administrative chaos — briefly under the Baku Commune (a Bolshevik-dominated body), then seized by Ottoman-backed Azerbaijani forces in September, then occupied by British troops under General Dunsterville. The City Council (Gorodskaya Uprava) issued fractional notes like this one because small-denomination coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted down amid the fighting. Municipal authorities across the former Russian Empire resorted to the same stopgap during this period, but Baku's situation was unusually compressed — the city changed hands multiple times within a single year.
The lifespan of notes issued under the Uprava's authority was accordingly short.