Catalog
1.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukharan Emirate Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ОДНА ТЫСЯЧА ТЕНГОВ 1000 Арабская надпись (текст о номинале и эмитенте на арабском/персидском) |
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| Reverse lettering | ОДНА ТЫСЯЧА ТЕНГОВ 1000 |
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The Bukharan Emirate's paper currency of 1918 was a late and reluctant concession to monetary reality. The Emirate had long resisted issuing fiduciary paper, relying instead on silver tangas struck at the Bukhara mint, but the collapse of metal supplies and the disruptions of the Russian Civil War — which was already destabilizing Central Asia by this point — forced the Treasury's hand.
Pick 15 belongs to the final years of the Mangit dynasty under Emir Alim Khan, who was deposed by the Red Army in 1920. Notes from this issue rarely survived the subsequent Soviet suppression of Bukharan institutions.