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500 Roubles
| Issuer | Georgian Republic |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Light red-brown print on pale ground, with the denomination numeral to the left and right flanking a central vignette of Saint George on horseback set within an ornate decorative frame. Georgian script inscription occupies the central panel, with Cyrillic text to the right. Serial number appears in the upper right and lower left corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 |
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The Georgian Democratic Republic's 1919 note series was produced under genuinely precarious conditions — the country had declared independence from the collapsing Russian Empire in May 1918 and was simultaneously managing border conflicts with Armenia and Azerbaijan while trying to establish functioning monetary infrastructure from scratch. These early issues were locally printed, as access to established European security printers was neither reliable nor fast enough given the political circumstances.
Georgian independence lasted until February 1921, when the Red Army invaded. Notes from this series had a circulation window of roughly two years before Soviet currency displaced them entirely.