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500 Roubles
| Issuer | Republic of Georgia |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 500 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated female allegorical figure in traditional Georgian dress, flanked by two ornate arched columns with intricate geometric and floral guilloche work; a celestial disc with decorative motifs appears above her in the arch. The denomination «ხუთასი 500 მანეთი» is inscribed twice across the top, with two vertical text panels bearing the legal tender obligation text to either side of the central figure. Serial number appears vertically in the left and right margins. A dense decorative border of interlaced Georgian ornamental patterns frames the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | საქართველოს რესპუბლიკის ბონი ხუთასი 500 მანეთი ხუთასი 500 მანეთი ხუთასი მანეთი ხუთასი მანეთი მიღება სა- ბონისათვის ვალდებულოა პასუხის მგე- თანაბრად რუ- ბელია საქარ- სეთის სახელ- თველოს რეს- მწიფო საკრე- პუბლიკა მთე- დიტო ბილეთი ლი თავისი ქო- სა. ნებით. (Translation: Republic of Georgia, Five Hundred Maneti, Admission is required equally to a Russian state credit currency. The Republic of Georgia with all its property is responsible for this bond) |
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Georgia's 1919 note issues came during the brief window of the First Georgian Democratic Republic, which had declared independence from Russia in May 1918 and was operating under increasing Menshevik political consolidation while simultaneously fending off Bolshevik pressure from the north and territorial disputes with Armenia to the south. The 500 Rouble denomination sat at the high end of the republic's paper currency output for this period — a practical response to inflation already eroding purchasing power before the Soviet invasion of February 1921 ended the republic entirely.
Notes from this series were rendered worthless almost immediately upon Soviet annexation, and surviving examples often show the wear of a short but turbulent active life.