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5 Roubles Batum
| Issuer | Batum Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of two palm trees at centre, enclosed within a circular inscription band reading БАТУМСКОГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК. The denomination numeral 5 appears in each of the four corners within small circles. An anti-counterfeiting warning in Cyrillic runs along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | БАТУМСКОГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК ПОД.ДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ 5 РУБ. |
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Batum — the Black Sea port then under British military occupation — produced this note under genuinely chaotic administrative conditions. After the collapse of the Transcaucasian Federation and the Ottoman withdrawal, the British occupied Batum from late 1918, and local treasury notes were issued to fill an acute cash vacuum left by the simultaneous failure of several competing currency systems: Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, and various Russian imperial survivors all circulated in the region concurrently.
The extreme dimensions reflect materials rationing, not design choice. Britain withdrew from Batum in July 1920, handing it to the Soviets shortly after.