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1000 Kuponi
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Left portion carries a large vignette of the Vardzia cave monastery complex, the rock-hewn arched facades and terraced stone structures rendered in blue against a tan underprint, with intricate border guilloche running along all four edges and decorative cross motifs at each corner. To the right, a plain panel bears the large bold numeral '1000' flanked above and below by traditional Georgian ornamental knot devices within square frames. The overall color scheme is blue and ochre, consistent with the series. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Georgia's early 1990s kuponi series was emergency currency in every practical sense — issued as the country scrambled to establish monetary infrastructure following independence from the Soviet Union. The kuponi replaced Soviet rubles on a temporary basis, intended as a transitional instrument while a permanent national currency was prepared. That permanent currency, the lari, didn't arrive until 1995, by which point rampant inflation had rendered high-denomination kuponi notes nearly worthless in real terms.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" data is almost certainly a catalog or transcription anomaly — no Georgian national currency existed in 1945.