1000 Roubles, Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1919

This copy

Accession

OM-00137

Series year

1919

Actually issued

1919

chairman_of_the_government

not read uncertain

Signed in Georgian script; not transliterated.

minister_of_finance

not read uncertain

Signed in Georgian script; not transliterated.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Light wear, clean. 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

$8 indicative

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

Dimensions

164.2 × 102.9 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

Russian Civil WarCaucasusGeorgian scriptFrench text

The type

Type

1000 Roubles, Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1919

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — in Georgian and French

საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა / République Démocratique de Géorgie

Democratic Republic of Georgia. The French is an appeal to the European recognition that decided whether such a state survived

Symbology

Georgian script and French text

The note speaks to two audiences at once: its citizens in Georgian, and the European powers whose recognition decided whether the republic survived, in French.

St George

Georgia's patron, and the origin of the country's name in most European languages.

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 1000 Roubles, Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1919 in the collection.