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100 Rubley
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on coarse cotton fabric in red and black, the obverse is divided into a grid of cartouches and medallions filled with Arabic-script inscriptions, all set within an overall floral and geometric guilloche underprint in red. Three circular medallions occupy the upper register, while a central band contains four further inscription panels with the denomination repeated. A lower rectangular panel carries the legal text in Arabic script, flanked by two further circular medallions, with the value '100 P' displayed in a prominent panel at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed on cotton fabric in the same red and black colour scheme, presents a large central arched vignette panel left blank for serial number or stamp, surrounded by floral arabesque guilloche borders in red. Two circular medallions in the lower corners repeat Arabic-script legends, and the numeral '155' appears twice in the mid-register flanking the central arch, with an additional inscription panel in Arabic script occupying the upper portion of the design. |
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Khorezm — the short-lived Soviet satellite carved out of the former Khanate of Khiva in 1920 — produced some of the most materially unusual emergency currency in Central Asian history. Fabric notes were not a novelty across the region at this moment, but Khorezm's cotton issues are among the few where the substrate was a deliberate local resource decision rather than a wartime paper shortage fix. The republic itself dissolved into the Soviet Union by 1924, and its currency with it.
Cotton fabric notes from this series survive poorly — the material absorbs handling damage differently than paper, and many examples have frayed edges or faded ink from damp storage conditions specific to the region's climate.