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750 Roubles
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 750 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a radiating sun burst pattern with a circular arms device at centre containing Arabic script and a crescent with star. The denomination 750 is repeated in red numerals at multiple angles across the face, interspersed with Arabic script legends. A guilloche border of geometric latticework frames the entire note. |
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| Reverse lettering | دارم شوراللنین ٧٥٠ |
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The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic had a brief and chaotic existence — declared in 1920 after the Red Army ousted the Khan of Khiva, it was absorbed into the Soviet Union by 1924. This 750 Rouble denomination is notably unusual: most emergency issues of the period gravitated toward round figures, and 750 suggests the denomination was calibrated against specific local exchange conditions or existing coinage equivalencies rather than simply copied from Russian Soviet practice.
Khorezm issued its own currency series precisely because monetary integration with Moscow was incomplete during the transition years. These notes circulated in a region where barter and silver coin remained dominant, and paper acceptance was far from guaranteed.