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100 Rubles
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in multicolour (rose, green, and blue) on a light ground with an overall fine guilloche underprint. A crescent and star device occupies the centre field, flanked by Arabic-script inscriptions in cartouches to the right and left. Four circular medallions, each carrying Arabic text, are placed at the corners. The denomination "100 РУБЛЕЙ" appears in large red letterpress characters along the lower portion, with repeated numerals "100" running along all four borders within a decorative frame of interlocking geometric ornament. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose and green on a similar light guilloche ground. Two large ornate teardrop-shaped vignettes in green, each enclosing Arabic calligraphic text within a circular panel, are symmetrically placed in the centre field. A starburst ornament appears between them at the top, accompanied by Arabic inscriptions in the upper register. A horizontal decorative panel with Arabic lettering runs across the lower centre. The borders repeat the "100" numerals and interlaced geometric frame seen on the obverse. |
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The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic was a short-lived Soviet client state established in 1920 on the ruins of the Khanate of Khiva, after the Red Army deposed Khan Sayid Abdullah. It lasted only until 1923, when it was reorganized as the Khorezm Soviet Socialist Republic and eventually absorbed into the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs. This note was issued in the republic's founding year, making it among the earliest emissions of a government that existed for barely three years.
Treasury issues of this period were produced under extremely rudimentary conditions, and the printing quality across the Khorezm series is notoriously inconsistent. Paper supply was irregular, and some notes in related denominations show significant variation in ink color and impression depth within the same print run.