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50 Roubles Transcaucasian Commissariat
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Commissariat |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Black on blue-grey underprint. An ornate architectural border frames the central field, with decorative columns flanking the design and an elaborate foliate frieze along the upper margin; the denomination numeral 50 occupies each corner. The issuing authority's name arcs across the top of the central field in Cyrillic letterpress, with the written denomination ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures of the Commissariat Chairman and Finance Commissar, and the date 1918. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ 50 ЗА ПОДДЕЛКУ БОНОВЪ ВИНОВНЫЕ ПОДВЕРГАЮТСЯ НАКАЗАНIЮ КАКЪ ЗА ПОДДЕЛКУ КРЕДИТНЫХЪ БИЛЕТОВЪ |
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The Transcaucasian Commissariat existed for roughly four months in early 1918, a short-lived attempt by the Menshevik, Dashnak, and Musavat factions to hold together a post-imperial Transcaucasian state after the collapse of the Russian front. Its currency was a practical necessity — Petrograd money was still circulating but increasingly distrusted, and local commerce needed something the new authority could control. The Commissariat itself dissolved in April 1918, fragmenting into the Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani republics, each of which then issued their own notes.
S605 is among the more attainable survivors of this brief monetary episode, though notes attributed to the Commissariat are frequently confused with later Transcaucasian Federation issues.