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50 000 Roubles Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
| Issuer | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Soviet arms of the Azerbaijan SSR, flanked by two standing allegorical figures at left and right within an ornate frame. Bilingual inscriptions in Russian Cyrillic and Arabic script appear at top and across the face, with the denomination stated in large Cyrillic lettering at centre. Serial number and date 1921 appear in the lower portion alongside two manuscript signatures of commissars. |
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| Reverse lettering | АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКАЯ СОЦИАЛИСТ СОВЕТСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ РУБЛЕЙ 50000 ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ أذربايجان شورا جمهوريتی ألف بيش مانات ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ 50000 ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ 50000 Р. ДНН ٥٠٠٠٠ الف بيش مانات ٥٠٠٠٠ |
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The Transcaucasian republics — Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia — each issued their own Soviet-era emergency currency in the early 1920s before being absorbed into the Transcaucasian SFSR in 1922 and eventually folded into the USSR's unified monetary system. Azerbaijan's 1921 high-denomination issues reflect the catastrophic inflation gripping the former imperial territories during this transitional period, when local sovznak-style notes were being printed in volumes that made large face values a practical necessity rather than a luxury denomination.
Pick S716 falls within a series that is genuinely scarce in collectible condition — the paper quality used for Transcaucasian issues of this period was poor, and surviving examples frequently show brittleness along fold lines.