Catalog
50 Kuponi digit '2' in denominator
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Kuponi (1993-1995) |
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| Obverse description | The right portion of the face carries a vignette of the old city of Tbilisi with Mount Mtatsminda visible in the background, rendered in fine linear underprint. The denomination numeral '50' appears at the left within a guilloche border frame, flanked by ornamental Georgian corner motifs. The issuer's name in Georgian script runs across the upper register alongside the currency designation. |
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| Protection description | Hexagonal honeycomb pattern watermark, with adjoining hexagons arranged in a repeating cellular structure. |
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The Georgian kuponi series was an emergency parallel currency introduced after independence, while Georgia was still using Soviet rubles. These notes were not designed for permanence — the kuponi was always a transitional instrument, and the entire series was replaced by the lari in 1995. The "digit '2' in denominator" designation refers to a control number variant used to distinguish print runs within the same denomination, a cataloguing distinction that matters more to specialists than it ever did to cashiers.
The 1945 print date almost certainly reflects reused or misdated printing equipment, not actual 1945 production — this note was issued in 1993.