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10 Akşa
| Issuer | Tuvan People's Revolutionary Bank |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| In circulation to | 1944 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the note carries the inscription ТЬВА АРАТ РЕСПУБЛИК across the top, with a central vignette of an agricultural scene set against a mountain landscape — a farmer ploughing with oxen beside a large tree. The numeral 10 appears in large figures on either side of the vignette, flanked by ornate guilloche borders, with the denomination legend ОН АКŞА along the lower margin and the bank name inscription ТЬВА САДБОЙ-ҮЛЕТПҮРҮНҮН БАНКЭЗIНIН БIЛЕДI below the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Bankнын бiледi пөlза, албын, өрiтектiоң металдар, Тьва садбой-үлетпүрүнүн банкызы бiр өске пайлактырылбай пүдүн хөмсөелдiң хандырттынар 1940 ОН АКŞА |
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Tuva occupied a peculiar political position in 1940 — nominally an independent republic wedged between the Soviet Union and Mongolia, but in practice wholly under Moscow's influence since the late 1920s. The Tuvan People's Revolutionary Bank existed as a formal banking institution largely because maintaining the fiction of sovereignty required one. This note was issued just one year before Tuva formally petitioned for annexation into the USSR in 1944, making the entire 1940 series among the last distinctly Tuvan currency issues ever produced.
The print run was small by any measure, reflecting an economy based primarily on livestock herding with minimal cash transactions.