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3.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red and green letterpress note with an elaborate arabesque border enclosing a dense wavy-line guilloche underprint. A central cartouche in green contains Arabic script text, flanked above by a crescent and star device; ornamental corner medallions with Arabic numerals appear at each corner. The Cyrillic denomination inscription "3000 ТЕНГОВЪ" is printed in black along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Red stipple-pattern ground covers the full face within a decorative border of interlaced geometric motifs. Two large cartouches with green guilloche frames are positioned side by side in the lower half, each bearing Arabic script text, while a smaller green oval cartouche at the top centre also carries Arabic inscriptions accompanied by a crescent and star. Serial numbers in Arabic-Indic numerals appear below each of the two lower cartouches. |
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The Emirate of Bukhara's 1918 paper issues were a direct response to the near-total collapse of metal coinage circulation across Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. The traditional tanga was a copper coin; issuing paper denominated in tangas was a significant break with local monetary practice, and the population treated these notes with predictable suspicion.
Emir Alim Khan's government had little printing infrastructure of its own. These notes are notably crude by contemporary standards — a reflection of local production rather than any established state printing works. The Bolsheviks abolished the emirate in 1920, making the entire paper series short-lived and cutting off any possibility of redemption.