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5000 Kuponi
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Reference(s) | P#31 |
| Obverse description | A vignette of the historic Tbilisi cityscape occupies the right portion of the note, with the slopes of Mount Mtatsminda rising in the background, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral appears to the left within an ornamental frame incorporating traditional Georgian border elements. Inscriptions in Georgian script along the upper and lower margins identify the issuing authority and the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000 კუპონი 5000 სებ საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი (Translation: 5000 Kuponi, NBG National Bank of Georgia) |
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Georgia's early 1990s kupon series was emergency currency in the strictest sense — the republic had no printing infrastructure and scrambled to establish a functioning monetary system while simultaneously fighting separatist conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. High denominations like this 5000 escalated rapidly as inflation consumed the kupon's purchasing power almost immediately after introduction.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" date in the catalog data almost certainly reflects a stock paper manufacture date watermarked into the substrate, not a press run — a known anomaly in several Georgian kupon listings caused by wartime-era paper stock acquired through post-Soviet supply chains.