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10 000 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 000 Tengov (10 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | ۱0000 10000,ТЕНЬГОВЪ ۱۳۳۸ (Translation: 10000 Tengov, 1338) |
| Reverse description | The back presents an overall fine guilloche lattice ground in red-brown, within a meander border. Two principal decorative cartouches in a cusped ogival form are set side by side in the lower half, each containing Arabic-script inscriptions, while a larger lobed cartouche above carries additional text and a handstamped official seal. A watermark-like ghost impression of the obverse coat of arms panel is visible at left through the thin paper stock. |
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The Emirate of Bukhara's 1920 note issues came at the worst possible moment for the institution backing them. The Red Army overthrew Emir Said Alim Khan in September 1920, ending a dynasty that had ruled — under varying degrees of Russian imperial pressure since 1868 — for centuries. Notes from this series were issued in the months immediately preceding or concurrent with that collapse, which means they circulated in a polity that ceased to exist almost immediately after printing.
The succeeding Bukharan People's Soviet Republic issued its own currency, rendering these tengas obsolete almost at birth. Surviving examples often show minimal wear for that reason — not because they were carefully preserved, but because the political situation overtook their practical use before they could circulate fully.