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100 Roubles Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown and blue on plain paper, the obverse is framed by a border of geometric and floral ornamental patterns in the Central Asian decorative tradition. A central cloud-form vignette in blue guilloche surrounds an oval cartouche bearing Arabic-script text. The denomination "100 РУБЛЕЙ" (100 Roubles) is inscribed in Cyrillic at the foot of the note, with small arabesque corner medallions completing the design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and brown, with a dense overall underprint of repetitive geometric arabesque patterns covering the entire field. A prominent central vignette of a lobed arch form, printed in brown, contains stylized floral ornamentation. Below it, a horizontal oval cartouche carries Arabic-script text, and a handwritten serial number in Arabic numerals appears at the lower centre. |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic existed for barely three years — declared in September 1920 after the Red Army dismantled the Emirate of Bukhara, and absorbed into the Uzbek SSR in 1924. This note belongs to that transitional sliver of history, when the region operated nominally as an independent Soviet republic while remaining under tight Bolshevik control. Currency was issued partly out of practical necessity — the old Bukharan tanga and Russian imperial notes were still circulating alongside Sovznaks — and partly to reinforce the legitimacy of the new administration.
The 1921 emission was printed under chaotic conditions with limited technical infrastructure, and quality control was inconsistent across the series. Notes from this issuer survive in smaller numbers than their Soviet counterparts simply because the republic's lifespan was so short and redemption at dissolution was incomplete.