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FUN Signature Currency Sale 3552 5 January 2017
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Russia Soviet Baku City Administration 25 Rubles 1918 Pick S732 The Battle of Baku took place from June through September 1918 pitting an Ottoman-Azerbaijani coalition against Bolshevik-Dashnak (Armenian) forces. British, White Russian, and Centrocaspian Dictatorship troops would replace the latter in late July due to a bloodless coup d'etat that would eventually lead to the execution of the 26 Baku Commissars (not all were commissars or Bolsheviks) on September 20 by a Menshevik-Socialist Revolutionary firing squad between the train stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma on the Trans-Caspian railway. Other scenarios are known of this execution. Nonetheless, the Ottoman-Azerbaijani coalition would still be victorious, as British General Lionel Dunsterville and "Dunsterforce" left Baku for Baghdad on September 15. Also, according to Dunsterville's diary on September 5, a watermelon cost 20 rubles, a bottle of natural mineral water could be purchased for 4 rubles, and the price of an egg was 2.5 rubles. A storied note with only the lightest signs of circulation. PMG Choice About Uncirculated 58.
Estimate: 200-300 USD
Russia Soviet Baku City Administration 25 Rubles 1918 Pick S732 The Battle of Baku took place from June through September 1918 pitting an Ottoman-Azerbaijani coalition against Bolshevik-Dashnak (Armenian) forces. British, White Russian, and Centrocaspian Dictatorship troops would replace the latter in late July due to a bloodless coup d'etat that would eventually lead to the execution of the 26 Baku Commissars (not all were commissars or Bolsheviks) on September 20 by a Menshevik-Socialist Revolutionary firing squad between the train stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma on the Trans-Caspian railway. Other scenarios are known of this execution. Nonetheless, the Ottoman-Azerbaijani coalition would still be victorious, as British General Lionel Dunsterville and "Dunsterforce" left Baku for Baghdad on September 15. Also, according to Dunsterville's diary on September 5, a watermelon cost 20 rubles, a bottle of natural mineral water could be purchased for 4 rubles, and the price of an egg was 2.5 rubles. A storied note with only the lightest signs of circulation. PMG Choice About Uncirculated 58.
Estimate: 200-300 USD