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500 Roubles Transcaspian Region
| Issuer | Transcaspian People's Bank (Закаспийский Народный Банк) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on a plain light ground. At upper left, a heraldic double-headed eagle above a shield with a rampant lion is enclosed within a wreath of laurel branches, serving as the main vignette. To the right, a rectangular bordered text panel carries the legal-tender declaration and counterfeiting warning in Cyrillic. The denomination ПЯТЬСОТЪ РУБЛЕЙ appears in bold type both at the top and at the bottom of the note, with two circular guilloche medallions bearing '500' positioned at upper right and lower right. The year 1919 г. is printed at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬСОТЪ РУБЛЕЙ ВЫПУЩЕНЪ ПО РАСПОРЯЖЕНІЮ ЗАКАСПІЙСКАГО ВРЕМЕННАГО ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВА ИМЪЕТЪ ХОЖДЕНІЕ НАРАВНЪ СЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ ПОДДЪЛКА ПРЕСЛЪДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ ПЯТЬСОТЪ РУБЛЕЙ 1919 г. 500 |
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The Transcaspian People's Bank had a brief and chaotic existence. The Transcaspian Provisional Government — a coalition of Socialist Revolutionaries and railway workers that briefly seized control of the region from the Bolsheviks in 1918 — operated with British military backing out of Ashkhabad, and its currency issues reflect that improvised authority. Notes circulated in a corridor roughly following the Central Asian Railway, the only reliable artery through the region.
By 1919, when this 500 Rouble note was issued, the government was already losing ground. British forces withdrew that year, and Bolshevik reconquest followed shortly after — leaving these issues with an extremely short effective circulation window.