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50 000 000 Roubles Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 50 000 000 Roubles (50 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on light paper with a rectangular guilloche border frame. At upper left, a vignette of oil derricks set against a mountain landscape; at upper right, a second vignette of an industrial or architectural scene. The centre is dominated by the ZSFSR state seal — a circular medallion bearing a hammer and sickle over a rising sun with mountain peaks, encircled by inscription text in Russian, Georgian, and Armenian. The denomination '50 МИЛЛИОНОВ РУБЛЕЙ' and numeral '50000000' appear at right, with multilingual legends running across the note in Cyrillic, Georgian, and Arabic scripts. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed as a blind intaglio impression on plain paper, showing the mirror image of the obverse design in very pale relief without ink, typical of unprinted or back-impression notes of the era. The central state seal medallion, the oil-derrick vignette at upper left, and the denomination numerals are all discernible as embossed outlines against the unprinted white surface. |
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The Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic was a short-lived administrative union of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, created in 1922 and dissolved into separate Soviet republics by 1936. Its currency existed in an equally brief window, issued while the region was being absorbed into the USSR's monetary framework. The enormous face value — 50,000,000 roubles — reflects the catastrophic hyperinflation that had ravaged the post-revolutionary rouble, making denominations of this magnitude a practical necessity rather than an anomaly.
The TSFSR monetary series is among the more obscure Soviet-era regional issues, and P#S634 sits at the high end of the denomination range.