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5000 Roubles 1992 state loan
| Issuer | Republic of Georgia |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | საქართველოს რესპუბლიკა 1992 03900 030 სახელმწიფო შინაგანი მომგებიანი სესხი - ৩১৪৯০৪০ 01 ობლიგაცია თანხით ხუთი ათასი მანეთი გლიგაცია N 030 03900 01 თარგი 5000 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1992 5000 საქართველოს რესპუბლიკის 1992 წლის სახელმწიფო შინაგანი მომგებიანი სესხის პირობები ხუთი ათასი მანეთი |
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Georgia's 1992 currency situation was genuinely chaotic. Following independence, the republic had no printing infrastructure of its own and remained dependent on Goznak in Moscow — the same state enterprise printing Russian Federation notes — to produce its transitional issues. This note, designated a "state loan" instrument, was part of a stopgap series intended to replace Soviet roubles while Georgia worked toward its own currency, the lari, which wouldn't arrive until 1995.
The political awkwardness of sourcing sovereign Georgian currency from a Russian federal printer during a period of active territorial conflict with Abkhazia and South Ossetia was not lost on Tbilisi. The interim coupon series that followed was printed domestically under far more difficult conditions.