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50 Kopecks Baku
| Issuer | Baku City Council (Бакинская Городская Управа) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The city arms of Baku, a shield with three oil lamps above crossed olive branches, is centred between two diamond-framed numeral 50 vignettes. The issuer's title БАКИНСКАЯ ГОРОДСКАЯ УПРАВА runs along the top in Cyrillic letterpress. Below the arms, two cursive manuscript signatures appear with their respective titles in Cyrillic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | ИМѢЕТЪ ХОЖДЕНІЕ НАРАВНѢ СЪ РАЗМѢННОЙ СЕРЕБРЯНОЙ МОНЕТОЙ КОП. 50 КОП. ПОДДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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The Baku City Council issued this note during one of the most volatile stretches of the South Caucasus's short-lived post-imperial fragmentation. In 1918, Baku changed hands multiple times — from the Baku Commune under Stepan Shaumian's Bolshevik leadership in the spring, to the Centro-Caspian Dictatorship in August, then briefly to Ottoman-backed Azerbaijani forces in September. Municipal scrip of this kind was a direct response to the near-total collapse of circulating coinage and reliable currency supply during these transitions.
City council issues from this period were stopgap instruments, typically printed under whatever facilities were locally available. Survivorship is uneven.