100 000 Roubles, Azerbaijan SSR, 1921
Азербайджанская Социалистическая Советская Республика
Loading the detail view…
Scroll or pinch to zoom · drag to pan · Esc to close
This copy
- Accession
- OM-00130
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- 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.
- Estimated value
- $5.5 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.
- Dimensions
- 139.5 × 90.1 mm (±0.8, from the scan)
- Themes
- HyperinflationCaucasusArabic scriptSoviet
The type
- Type
- 100 000 Roubles, Azerbaijan SSR, 1921
- Printer
- Not established
- Rarity
- common
Inscriptions
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 100 000 Roubles, Azerbaijan SSR, 1921 in the collection.
Print an album label for this note →
← → to move between notes