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500 Kuponi
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A vignette at right presents a panoramic view of old Tbilisi with Mount Mtatsminda rising in the background, rendered in a fine illustrative style. The denomination numeral appears at left, framed within a decorative border incorporating traditional Georgian ornamental motifs at the corners. The issuer's name in Georgian script runs along the note. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette occupies the left two-thirds of the note and presents a detailed engraved view of the Vardzia cave monastery complex, with its carved rock facades, arched galleries, and stone stairways rendered in purple against a pale ochre guilloche underprint. The large denomination numeral "500" appears twice — once in the upper left corner and again in bold figures at the right, flanked by a decorative panel with interlaced Georgian ornamental motifs and corner rosettes. |
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The Georgian coupon currency — the kuponi — was introduced in April 1993 as a parallel tender alongside the Soviet ruble, which was still technically legal tender in Georgia at the time. It was never intended as a permanent solution; the lari replaced it in 1995 at a rate of one million kuponi to one lari, which tells you precisely what happened to its purchasing power in the intervening two years.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field almost certainly reflects a plate date or a data entry anomaly rather than the actual production date — Georgian coupon notes of this series were printed domestically under severe resource constraints in the early 1990s.