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50 Roubles Soviet Baku
| Issuer | Soviet of the Baku City Economy (Совѣтъ Бакинскаго Городского Хозяйства) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette with large overlapping numerals '50' forming a monogram, flanked by ornate floral and foliate scrollwork with pendant rosettes on either side. Denomination circles '50' appear at upper left and right corners within guilloche roundels, with a decorative ribbon bow at top centre. The issuing authority inscription runs across the upper field in Cyrillic, with the anti-counterfeiting legend and serial number panels in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Arms above oil derricks, with a sailing ship with anchor, gear, crates, and a cornucopia arranged below in a central compositional vignette typical of regional Civil War-era issues. |
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Baku in 1918 was one of the most contested cities on earth — seized by the Baku Commune in April, briefly held by British forces as "Dunsterforce" from August, and retaken by Ottoman-backed Azerbaijani troops in September, before the Red Army ultimately consolidated control. This note was issued by the Soviet of the Baku City Economy during the Commune period, a matter of weeks before the entire administration collapsed and its commissars were executed at Krasnovodsk.
Local emergency issues of this kind were never intended as durable currency. The Baku Commune lasted 137 days.