Catalog
50 Kuponi digit '1' in denominator
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Vardzia cave monastery complex at left, rendered in blue intaglio-style print against the rock face, with an arched bridge in the foreground. Denomination numeral '50' appears twice — in the upper left corner and in a guilloche panel to the right — within an ornamental Georgian-style border frame printed in blue and orange. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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The Georgian kupon series of 1993 was a transitional currency — effectively a coupon-based parallel tender introduced as Georgia exited the Soviet ruble zone. The kuponi suffered catastrophic inflation almost immediately, rendering low denominations like this one functionally worthless within months of issue. The "digit '1' in denominator" designation in the Pick catalog distinguishes a typographic variant in the fraction-style denomination rendering, a minor but catalogued printing difference within the series.
The 1945 print date in the metadata is almost certainly a data error — no Georgian kuponi existed in 1945.