Catalog
10.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara Emirate Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | بخارای شریف ١٣٣٨ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a red-brown geometric guilloche pattern forming an overall lattice underprint within a meander border. Three ogival cartouches in the upper and lower areas carry Arabic script inscriptions, while a larger lobed central frame at upper centre contains a handstamped Arabic text. Serial numbers appear in two positions within the lower portion of the composition. |
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The Bukhara Emirate's paper money experiment was brief and desperate. By 1919, Emir Alim Khan's government was under severe pressure from Bolshevik forces closing in from the north, and the treasury issues of this period were essentially emergency instruments printed with minimal infrastructure. The Emirate would fall entirely in September 1920 when Red Army troops under Mikhail Frunze took Bukhara after a three-day assault.
P#24 belongs to the final series of Bukharan tangas — the last monetary output of a khanate-era Central Asian state before Soviet absorption erased the currency entirely.