Old Money Registry

1 000 000 Roubles, Transcaucasian SFSR, 1923

Закавказская Социалистическая Федеративная Советская Республика

Obverse 600 dpi
Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession
OM-00039
Series year
1923
Actually issued
1923–1924
Signatures
This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
Grade
F (IBNS)

Moderate wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not. No serial or series marking located on the scan. Verify in hand before treating this as missing data.

Estimated value
$5.5 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions
169.4 × 100.5 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
Themes
HyperinflationTranscaucasiaFour scriptsSoviet federation

The type

Type
1 000 000 Roubles, Transcaucasian SFSR, 1923
Printer
Goznak
Rarity
common

Inscriptions

Obverse — fixing one currency against another

Один рубль закавказскими бонами равняется одному рублю грузинскими бонами

One rouble in Transcaucasian bony equals one rouble in Georgian bony — an exchange rate set by decree between two currencies of the same region

Symbology

Soviet arms
Hammer and sickle crossed over a globe in a wreath of wheat, with a rising sun behind - industry and agriculture, the world as the field of action, and the sunrise of a new order. It replaced the eagle entirely rather than editing it.
Four scripts
Russian, Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani in Arabic letters, on a Soviet federation that Stalin dissolved in 1936.

What was happening

The 1 000 000-rouble note of the 1923 Transcaucasian series. Issued by the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic — the short-lived federation of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan that existed inside the USSR from 1922 until Stalin dissolved it in 1936.

Read the small print across the top: one rouble in Transcaucasian bony equals one rouble in Georgian bony. That sentence is the whole problem in miniature. The region had been running several parallel currencies — Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian — and this note exists to fix an exchange rate between two of them by decree.

The denomination appears in four scripts: Russian, Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani in Arabic letters. Within about a year the 1924 all-union currency reform swept the whole issue away. The denominations tell you why: this series runs from thousands to twenty-five million roubles in the space of a single year.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1 000 000 Roubles, Transcaucasian SFSR, 1923 in the collection.

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