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500 000 Roubles Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Federation (Fed. S.S.R. Zakavkazya) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ПЯТЬСОТ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ РУБЛЕЙ რუბლს منات 500 000 Один рубль закавказских бонами равняется одному рублю грузинскими бонами 1923 |
| Reverse description | A central oval vignette presents a neoclassical government building with a flagpole and flag above the roofline, enclosed within an elaborate guilloche border with rosette cornerpieces. The denomination 500 000 is repeated in large numerals in Russian, Georgian, and Arabic to either side of the vignette, with the issuer's name ФЕД.С.О.Р. ЗАКАВКАЗЬЯ inscribed below in Cyrillic. Trilingual legends confirming legal tender status across the Transcaucasian Federation appear in the lower margin, with the signatures of the Presidium of the Union Council at the bottom centre. |
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The Transcaucasian Federation — uniting Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia — was itself a short-lived administrative construction, dissolved into the USSR at the end of 1936. Its currency emissions of 1923 reflect a monetary situation that was genuinely chaotic: the rouble was in freefall during the post-civil war hyperinflation, which is the only explanation for face values reaching the hundreds of thousands on notes issued by an entity that had existed for barely a year.
P#S619 is a regional Soviet issue, not a central Moscow emission, and the distinction matters for collectors — Transcaucasian paper circulated within a geographically defined zone and was later superseded by the reformed Soviet chervonets system introduced under the NEP stabilization.