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2.500 Tengas / Tingov
| Issuer | Bukharan Soviet People's Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Cotton/linen fabric |
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| Obverse description | Printed on woven cotton-linen fabric with a salmon-pink border running along all edges. The central vignette consists of a large oval medallion surmounted by a crescent and stylized sunburst, flanked by multiple circular guilloche medallions of varying sizes arranged across the field. An arched vignette occupies the upper left, with Arabic script inscriptions and a rectangular panel below it. A red official stamp is partially visible at left, and handwritten notations appear within the central medallion. |
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| Reverse description | Printed on the same woven cotton-linen fabric as the obverse, with the identical salmon-pink woven border at the edges. The central design presents a large crescent open downward enclosing a bold quatrefoil cross motif with stepped geometric edges, surrounded by numerous oval and circular guilloche medallions of various sizes distributed across the entire field. Arabic script notations appear within several of the circular roundels, and a red official stamp is visible in the lower left area. |
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The Bukharan Soviet People's Republic was a short-lived entity — it existed formally from 1920, which makes the 1918 date on this note a product of the transitional chaos that preceded the Soviet-backed overthrow of the Emirate of Bukhara. The treasury was effectively improvising: no adequate printing infrastructure existed locally, so these were produced on fabric rather than conventional banknote paper, a practical workaround given supply conditions in a landlocked Central Asian city under economic siege.
The tenge/tinga denomination itself was inherited from pre-Soviet Central Asian monetary custom. This issue circulated alongside Emirate coinage and Russian Imperial-era paper, in a region where multiple currencies competed for acceptance simultaneously.