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500 000 Roubles Banque Nationale de Géorgie
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Géorgie (საქართველოს ს. ს. რესპუბლიკის ბანკი) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Ornate vertical guilloche cartouche at left bearing the numeral 500000, with the Georgian and French bank titles across the upper portion — საქართველოს ს. ს. რესპუბლიკის ბანკი and BON de la BANQUE NATIONALE de GEORGIE. The bond text in Georgian script occupies the central field, with the date Tiflis, 31 May 1922 and two manuscript signatures of bank officials below. Serial number in the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | საქართველოს ს. ს. რესპუბლიკის ბანკი ვალდებულება BON de la BANQUE NATIONALE de GEORGIE 500.000 მან. ბანკის მმმართველი მთავარი კონტროლიორი მთავარი მოლარე |
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By the time this note was issued in 1922, Georgia had already been absorbed into Soviet Russia following the Red Army invasion of February 1921. The "Banque Nationale de Géorgie" name is something of a ghost — the institution printing these notes was operating under Soviet oversight, not as an expression of Menshevik independence. The half-million rouble face value reflects galloping inflation that had made smaller denominations functionally useless within months of issue.
Printed locally in Tiflis rather than through Moscow's facilities, the note belongs to a transitional series produced while Georgia's monetary system was being folded into the nascent Soviet ruble framework before Transcaucasian Federation currency replaced it entirely in 1923.