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50 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by an ornate border with classical caryatid figures standing at each lateral margin. At centre, the Soviet state emblem of the Azerbaijan SSR appears as a large guilloche underprint vignette flanked by the bilingual denomination in Cyrillic and Arabic script. The upper panel carries the issuer's name in Arabic calligraphy, while the lower register bears the full name of the republic in Cyrillic. Two facsimile signatures of the People's Commissar of Finance and the Cashier, together with the dual-calendar year 1921/1339, appear above the lower inscription band. |
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| Obverse lettering | آذربایجان شورﺎ جومهوریتی ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ اللى ТЫСЯЧ-РУБ. بين منات АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКАЯ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ СОВЕТСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА (Translation: Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan, Fifty Thousand Roubles/Manat, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic) |
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Azerbaijan's Soviet administration issued this note during a period of extreme monetary chaos following the Red Army's annexation of the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in April 1920. The new Azerbaijani SSR briefly maintained its own currency apparatus before full absorption into the Transcaucasian Federation, and notes of this denomination reflect the hyperinflationary pressures that made enormous face values routine across the former Russian Empire in the early 1920s.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference denotes a regional Soviet issue rather than a central RSFSR emission — a distinction that matters for attribution, as these circulated within a defined geographic authority that ceased to exist independently by 1922.