50 000 Roubles, Azerbaijan SSR, 1921

This copy

Accession

OM-00129

Series year

1921

Actually issued

1921

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VG (IBNS)

Split along centre fold, 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

$4 indicative

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

Dimensions

145.9 × 95.1 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

HyperinflationCaucasusArabic scriptSoviet

The type

Type

50 000 Roubles, Azerbaijan SSR, 1921

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — parity with Russian notes

Имеет хождение наравне с российскими денежными знаками

Circulates on a par with Russian currency notes

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.

Arabic script

Retained on Soviet issues until the Latin alphabet reform of 1929.

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 50 000 Roubles, Azerbaijan SSR, 1921 in the collection.