25 Roubles, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 1919

This copy

Accession

OM-00066

Series year

1919

Actually issued

1919

chairman_of_the_council_of_ministers

not read uncertain

Handwritten facsimile, legible on the note but not resolved to a name. Compare against a published signature list.

minister_of_finance

not read uncertain

Handwritten facsimile, legible on the note but not resolved to a name. Compare against a published signature list.

Grade

G (IBNS)

Ragged edges, tears, heavy 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.

Estimated value

$2.5 indicative

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

Dimensions

105.5 × 65.4 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

Russian Civil WarCaucasusArabic script

The type

Type

25 Roubles, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 1919

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the republic's name in two scripts

Азербайджанская Республика

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, named in Russian and in Arabic script

Symbology

Crescent and Arabic script

The first secular republic in the Muslim world, naming itself in Russian and in Arabic letters.

What was happening

The South Caucasus fragmented faster than anywhere else in the former empire. The Transcaucasian Commissariat governed jointly for a few months from Tiflis, then split in 1918 into three republics — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan — each issuing its own currency, each conquered by the Red Army between 1920 and 1921, each then issuing Soviet notes in the same scripts.

These notes carry their denominations in Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani in Arabic script alongside Russian, and often French: an appeal to the European recognition that decided whether such a state survived.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 25 Roubles, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 1919 in the collection.