Iranian Azerbaijan [solved]

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This message aims at: requesting the creation or the modification of an issuer in the catalogue

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I was curious when I saw the issuer Azerbaijan People's Government in the Banknote Catalog. This was a 1945/46 seceding state in Iran with Soviet backing. The 11th edition (2009) of Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Specialized Issues, lists the country as Iranian Azerbaijan, which is also its listing in some stamp catalogs. There is one banknote on the Numista page and when I found the same banknote listed on page 701 of the SCWPM volume, I thought I would modify the entry to include its P# and the 3 variants noted. I also found that "Toman" currency plural is usually given as "Tomans". And the Iranian-Persian date in the year list is given as 1324 (1945) though SCWPM gives Gregorian date as 1946, which makes more sense since it is used as the date of the currency and the government was not established until December 1945 (revolt started in November), so currency was likely not printed until 1946.

I would ask that the issuer be moved to a subsection of Iran, since that is where the country was located before and after the secession. The country we know as Azerbaijan was divided between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. If it gets moved (or not) and name gets changed to Iranian Azerbaijan (or not) I will be happy to update the banknote listing. But I ran into one more problem. Since I am very new at adding entries to the catalog, I have never had to add Gregorian dates in parentheses to other calendars. The modification does not seem to display properly if parentheses are inserted after the Iranian-Persian date in the year list (the date goes all rusty colored instead of grey/black). And do you agree the Gregorian date used in this case should follow SCWPM?

Sorry to be so long-winded.

Will
Topic moved to "Numista banknote catalog" (ZacUK, 6 May 2020, 14:42)
Status changed to Done (stratocaster, 29 Ocak 2021, 23:39)
Hello,
Azerbaijan People's Government was moved to Iran a while ago, as part of a different ticket, so we can close this.
Best regards
strato

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