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1.000 Tengas / Tingov
| Issuer | Treasury of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1918-1920) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, printed on the same cream cotton stock, with faint offset impressions of the obverse visible through the thin paper. Cyrillic text reading «ТЫСЯЧА ТУМАНА» appears in the lower right area, accompanied by scattered Arabic script inscriptions and manuscript notations. A handwritten line in Russian at the top of the note records series and number information. |
| Reverse lettering | ТЫСЯЧА ТУМАНА |
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The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was only proclaimed in September 1920, which creates an immediate problem for any note dated 1918 — that date reflects the Islamic calendar year 1337 AH, not the Gregorian year. The denomination itself is spelled inconsistently across the series, appearing as both "tengas" and "tingov" on different issues, a reflection of the hasty, ad hoc nature of monetary administration in Bukhara during the collapse of the Emirate.
Cotton paper was the practical choice in a region that had grown the raw material for generations. Whether that was a deliberate local decision or simply what was available is unclear from surviving records.