Catalog
50 Kopecks
| Issuer | Georgian Republic |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Kopecks (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note is occupied by a circular vignette of the Georgian coat of arms, showing Saint George on horseback, enclosed within a wreath-like border with small star ornaments. Large numeral '50' appears to the left and right of the central vignette in blue letterpress, with the Georgian abbreviation 'კაპ.' repeated beneath each numeral. The note is framed by a blue guilloche border with interlaced chain and foliate corner ornaments on a salmon-pink ground. |
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| Reverse lettering | საქართველოს რესპუბლიკა 50 კაპეიკი 50 მიღება სავალდებულოა როგორც ხურდა ფულის |
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Georgia's brief period of Menshevik-led independence (1918–1921) produced a range of small-denomination notes that functioned as much out of necessity as policy — the young republic inherited almost no monetary infrastructure from the collapsed Russian imperial system. The 50 Kopeck note sits at the bottom of that emergency hierarchy, issued when the Georgian Ruble itself was still being established and fractional currency was genuinely scarce.
At under four centimeters tall, this is among the smallest format issues of the entire Georgian independence series. The Soviet invasion of February 1921 ended circulation abruptly, and surviving notes were largely discarded rather than formally redeemed.