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10.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara Emirate Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Tenga (1850-1920) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large symmetrical guilloche underprint in red-brown tones, with two elaborate mirrored foliate vignettes flanking a central circular cartouche bearing Arabic script. Additional Arabic inscriptions are arranged in the upper and lower registers, with ornamental rosette motifs at the lower corners, all framed within a decorative ruled border. A separate panel at right contains an ornate cartouche with the Hijri date rendered in Arabic numerals. |
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| Reverse lettering | بخارای شریف |
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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.