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| Issuer | Vahid Xeyriyyə Cəmiyyəti (Vahid Charitable Society) |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Size | 153 x 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper with a central oval vignette of Haci Zeynalabdin Tağıyev (1838–1924), bearded and in period dress, within a decorative frame with foliate scrollwork. The VXC monogram appears in green at left, denomination numerals 30 000 in guilloche cartouches at each corner, and a cursive green signature of the President, Haci Hüseynağa, at right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the reverse carries a central vignette of the Baku cityscape with the Maiden Tower at left and modern buildings in the background. The VXC monogram device appears at lower left, the year 1994 in a star-shaped cartouche at right, and denomination inscriptions in Azerbaijani at top and bottom within a ruled border. |
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Vahid Xeyriyyə Cəmiyyəti — the Vahid Charitable Society — issued product cheques during the acute consumer goods shortages of the early post-Soviet period in Azerbaijan. These were not banknotes in any central bank sense but quasi-monetary vouchers, circulating locally as entitlement instruments redeemable against specific goods rather than cash. The 1994 date places this squarely in Azerbaijan's most turbulent monetary years, when the manat itself had only just replaced the Russian ruble and hyperinflation was eroding purchasing power fast enough that 30,000 units represented a meaningful face value for only a short window.
The single signatory, Haci Hüseynağa, identifies this as the product of a small, religiously inflected charitable organization — "Haci" denoting a completed Hajj pilgrimage.