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1.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1.000 Tengas |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 ТЕНЪГОВЪ ١٨٥٣ |
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| Reverse lettering | ١٠٠٠ |
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Bukhara's paper currency experiment was brief and chaotic. The emirate had functioned for centuries on silver tangas, and when Emir Alim Khan began issuing paper money in 1918–1919, public acceptance was almost nonexistent — the population had no tradition of fiduciary currency and little reason to trust an emir increasingly under military pressure from Bolshevik forces closing in from Tashkent.
The Soviet-backed Red Army took Bukhara in September 1920, ending the emirate entirely. Notes from this 1919 series had an effective circulation window of under two years, and given the chaotic final months, substantial quantities were likely never distributed at all. Pick 23 sits at the higher end of the emirate's paper denominations.