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2.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara Emirate Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-brown tones on plain paper, with an overall guilloche lattice border enclosing two cartouches bearing Arabic-script inscriptions at centre. Two serial number panels appear at left and right, and two further lobed vignette panels below carry additional Arabic text. The denomination value "2000 ТЕНГОВЪ" is inscribed in Cyrillic lettering within a rectangular panel along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-brown with green accent tones, centred on a large radiating guilloche rosette from which a crescent-and-script device extends at the middle. An intricate lattice guilloche border frames the composition, with Arabic-script inscriptions in the upper and lower cartouches. Small green rosette devices appear in the corner areas as additional decorative elements. |
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The Bukhara Emirate's paper money experiment was brief and politically desperate. By 1918 the emirate was caught between Bolshevik pressure from the north and internal instability, and these treasury notes were issued without the backing infrastructure a functioning monetary system requires. The Emir Alim Khan's government had no established central bank — the treasury issued directly, an arrangement that collapsed within a few years when the Red Army took Bukhara in 1920.
Printed locally rather than by a European security printer, the notes show it. Surviving examples frequently display uneven ink distribution and misaligned impressions — not damage, but production quality consistent across the type.