500 Roubles

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.