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500 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a gold crescent and six-pointed star set within a pointed arch, surrounded by a multicolour guilloche border with arabesques. Red and green oval seal impressions appear at left and right, with Arabic script inscriptions in rectangular panels along the lower margin. The Hijri date and denomination appear in Arabic-Indic and Western numerals in the lower centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ۱۳۳۷ ۵00 500 ПЯТЬСОТЪ ТЕНЬГОВЪ (Translation: 1337, 500, Five Hundred Tengov) |
| Reverse description | Central pointed oval cartouche containing a gold crescent and star above dense Arabic calligraphic text on a blue ground, enclosed within a multicolour guilloche frame. Red stamped seal vignettes occupy the upper corners, with pink rectangular panels at the lower corners. Cyrillic denomination inscriptions appear in two parallel panels at the lower centre. |
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