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100 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | P#20 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and red on plain paper, with an ornate cusped arch (ogee) cartouche at centre containing Arabic script inscriptions arranged in three registers. The outer border is composed of fine guilloche latticework with floral corner ornaments in red. At the lower centre, a Cyrillic denomination legend reads '100 ТЕНГОВЪ' within a rectangular panel outlined in green. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on plain paper, with an overall guilloche latticework ground covering the entire field. A central circular vignette contains a heraldic shield bearing a crescent and star device, flanked by foliate scrollwork, with additional Arabic script cartouches in the upper left, upper right, and lower corners. A handwritten Arabic notation and two small red stamped seals appear along the lower edge. |
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The Bukhara People's Soviet Republic was a short-lived state — formally proclaimed in September 1920 after the Red Army overthrew the Emirate of Bukhara, though some transitional treasury issues predate the proclamation. This 100 Tengas note falls into that chaotic interregnum period when the old Bukharan monetary system was being dismantled but no coherent replacement had been established. The tenga itself was the traditional unit of the Emirate, retained provisionally while Bolshevik administrators sorted out what came next.
The republic was absorbed into the Uzbek SSR by 1924, making the entire run of Bukharan Soviet issues a span of just a few years.