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500 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed by letterpress on a dense guilloche ground in green and grey, the obverse centres on a pink cartouche bearing Arabic-script inscriptions, flanked by two smaller stamp-style vignettes. Two rectangular panels with Arabic text occupy the lower portion, while the denomination '500' appears in Arabic numerals within plain ruled frames at the lower left and right corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | ٥٠٠ |
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The Bukhara People's Soviet Republic existed for barely three years — proclaimed in September 1920 after the Red Army's assault on the Emirate of Bukhara, it was absorbed into the Uzbek SSR in 1924. This 1919 date on a Soviet Republic treasury issue is an anomaly worth noting: the emirate still stood in 1919, which means this note either carries a pre-revolution date retained on the plate or reflects the chaotic transitional monetary authority that preceded formal Soviet consolidation of the region.
Bukharan paper currency from this period circulated alongside Russian Tsarist notes, early Soviet issues, and local commodity substitutes — a genuinely fragmented monetary environment even by Central Asian revolutionary standards.