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50 000 Roubles Transcaucasian S.S.R. Railroad
| Issuer | Управление Железных Дорог С.С.Р. Закавказья (Railway Administration of the Transcaucasian S.S.R.) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Pink note with overall guilloche underprint of repeating geometric pattern. Central vignette consists of a large bold numeral «50000» framed by two symmetrical panels each bearing the denomination in Cyrillic text «ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ ТЫСЯЧ РУБ.». The heading «УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ЖЕЛЕЗНЫХ ДОРОГ» appears across the top with «РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК» below, and the issuing authority «С.С.Р. ЗАКАВКАЗЬЯ» at the foot; series designation «Сер. Б» and serial number appear at lower left and lower right respectively, with two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink note with faint guilloche underprint of repeating cross and diamond pattern. The entire face is occupied by a block of printed Cyrillic text setting out the conditions of issue, stating that the расчетный знак is issued by the Railway Administration of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Transcaucasia against maintenance funds, for payment for collective supply items, and is obligatory for acceptance and issue at collective supply points of the Transcaucasian railways. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot beneath the roles «За Нач. дорог» and «Комиссар дорог». |
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The Transcaucasian railway administration issued its own currency because it had to. In the early 1920s, the monetary situation across the former Russian Empire's southern periphery was catastrophically fragmented — Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani Soviet republics each ran their own emissions while Sovznaki flooded in from Moscow at ruinous exchange rates. Railway workers needed to be paid in something usable locally, and the administration had both the institutional authority and the practical necessity to print it.
P#S644 belongs to a category of Soviet-era railway and transport emergency emissions that are poorly documented and genuinely scarce in any condition — institutional records from this period were inconsistently kept, and most notes circulated hard before being superseded by the Transcaucasian Federated ruble after 1922.