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5000 Roubles Transcaucasian S.S.R. Railway
| Issuer | Управление Железных Дорог С.С.Р. Закавказья (Railways Administration of the Transcaucasian S.S.R.) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on pale yellow-grey paper. The upper portion bears the issuing authority inscription in Cyrillic across the top, with the denomination text «ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ» flanking a large bold numeral «5000» at centre within a guilloche frame. The left margin carries a vertical Cyrillic legend reading «Расчетный Знак», with series and number designations «Сер. Д № 2000» printed at lower left and lower right respectively. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Head of Railways and the Railway Commissar. |
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| Obverse lettering | УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ЖЕЛЕЗНЫХ ДОРОГ РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ. 5000 КОЛЛЕКТИВНОГО СНАБЖЕНИЯ. С. С. Р. ЗАКАВКАЗЬЯ. Расчетный Знак Сер. Д № 2000 За Нач. дорог Комиссар дорог |
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The Transcaucasian railway administration issued its own currency because it had to. In the early 1920s, the region was hemorrhaging through successive monetary regimes — Tsarist, Provisional Government, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, and then Soviet — and the railways needed a functional means of paying workers when no universally accepted tender existed. These transport-issued notes circulated primarily among railway employees and at stations along the network, functioning more like wage scrip than conventional currency.
Pick S641 belongs to a broader Soviet-era category of "transport money" that collectors often underestimate. Condition on survivors tends to be poor; these were working documents, not savings instruments.