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50 Roubles Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia - Aleksandropol
| Issuer | Aleksandropolsky Gorodskoy Obshchestvennyy Bank (Alexandropol City Public Bank) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Horizontally laid cheque-style emergency note in black letterpress on plain white paper, with the bank name АЛЕКСАНДРОПОЛЬСКIЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ printed vertically in the left and right margins. The central field is divided into printed lines for handwritten entries, including счёт (account), чекъ (cheque) number, and the instruction заплатите предъявителю (pay to the bearer), with the denomination пятьдесятъ рублей (fifty roubles) filled in by hand. A circular bank seal in violet ink and two handwritten signatures appear in the lower portion, with a manuscript date reading December 1919. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, showing plain white paper with visible fold lines from circulation and minor soiling consistent with the note's age. Pencilled collector notations appear in the upper left and lower right corners. |
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Aleksandropol — now Gyumri — was briefly the second city of Soviet Armenia, and this note dates to a period of administrative chaos following the collapse of the Transcaucasian Federation. The Aleksandropolsky Gorodskoy Obshchestvennyy Bank was a municipal institution issuing emergency scrip out of practical necessity rather than any monetary policy — central authority had effectively dissolved, and local commerce needed something to function on.
Printed locally under wartime conditions, the production quality reflects those constraints. The city itself fell under Turkish occupation in late 1920 following the Ottoman–Armenian War, which terminated the issuing authority entirely. Notes that survived that period did so largely by chance.