1/2 Naxar

The naxar was a short-lived local scrip introduced in Chechnya during the interwar period between the First and Second Chechen Wars, when the breakaway republic under Aslan Maskhadov lacked the infrastructure — and the international recognition — to sustain a functioning monetary system. Russian rubles remained the practical medium of exchange; the naxar circulated, to the extent it did at all, in extremely limited geographic and commercial scope.

Surviving examples are scarce simply because so few were produced and the political collapse of the Maskhadov government after 1999 ended any prospect of redemption or archival preservation.