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100 Roubles Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in pink on plain paper, the obverse is dominated by a central circular vignette bearing the arms of the Bukhara Soviet People's Republic — a crescent and star device — surrounded by Arabic inscriptions within an ornate guilloche border. Two serial number panels appear at left and right of centre, with further Arabic text in rectangular panels along the lower portion. The overall design is executed in a letterpress style with floral corner ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in pink, the reverse carries a dense lattice-pattern underprint across the entire field. A central cartouche in ornate scrollwork contains multi-line Arabic and Uzbek text stating the note's legal tender value. The large numeral '100' appears at left centre and the Cyrillic abbreviation 'РУБ.' at right, with 'СТО РУБЛЕЙ' repeated in the lower left and lower right corners. The date '1922' is printed along the lower margin. |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic was a short-lived Soviet satellite state established in 1920 after the Red Army overthrew the Emirate of Bukhara — one of Central Asia's oldest Islamic monarchies. The new republic nominally governed itself but in practice operated under tight Bolshevik supervision, and its currency issues reflect that transitional chaos: multiple series were printed in rapid succession between 1920 and 1923 as the state stumbled toward full absorption into the Soviet Union.
The S1045 belongs to the 1922 emission, issued just a year before Bukhara was dissolved into the newly formed USSR. Notes from this series circulated alongside a bewildering range of competing local and Soviet instruments, which kept genuine circulation wear low — most Bukharan paper was displaced rather than worn out.