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200 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is a multicolour typeset composition arranged symmetrically around a central crescent and star vignette in yellow-gold, the primary emblem of the Bukhara khanate. The denomination numeral 200 appears in green at the lower left and right corners, with Cyrillic legend ДВЕСТИ / ТЕНЕГ / ОВЪ repeated in matching corner blocks. Multiple stamped cartouches in Arabic script in red, green, and brown are distributed across the field in a grid-like arrangement, the entire design bordered by a guilloche-style frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on the same crescent and star motif in yellow-gold, surrounded by oval cartouches bearing Arabic script inscriptions in orange and green. Corner blocks carry the numeral 255 in red on a green ground at upper left and right, while the lower portion bears two Cyrillic blocks reading ДВЕСТИ / ТЕНЬ / ГОВЪ flanking a central Arabic text panel in brown, all set within a repeating wave-pattern border. |
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The Bukhara People's Soviet Republic was not actually established until 1920, following the Red Army's overthrow of the Emirate of Bukhara. Notes dated 1918 in this series predate the republic's formal existence entirely — the dating reflects the Islamic calendar conversion rather than the Gregorian year of issue, a detail that routinely causes confusion in catalog attribution.
Bukharan Soviet currency occupied an awkward position: the emirate's traditional copper tanga coinage had been the local medium for centuries, and paper instruments from any central authority were viewed with deep suspicion by the bazaar economy they were meant to serve.