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100 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ۱۳۳۷ ۱۰۰ СТО ТЕНЬ ГОВЪ 100 (Translation: 1337, 100, One Hundred Tengov) |
| Reverse description | Central crescent and star vignette, rendered in gold, is repeated within a guilloche border matching the obverse. Two large oval seals in brown and black ink carry Arabic-script legends of the Bukharan Treasury, positioned left and right of the central device. Denomination cartouches in Cyrillic text and Arabic numerals occupy the lower register, with additional boxed Arabic inscriptions above. |
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The Emirate of Bukhara's paper money issues of 1919 came at a moment of acute political pressure — the emir, Alim Khan, was simultaneously navigating Bolshevik encroachment from the north and the collapse of traditional trade networks that had sustained the region for centuries. These treasury notes were a desperate fiscal measure, not a functioning monetary system.
Bukhara fell to the Red Army in September 1920, and the emirate ceased to exist within weeks of that assault. Most of this series had an effective circulation life of under eighteen months before Soviet currency replaced it entirely.