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100 Tengov Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 100 Tengov |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set against a dense geometric guilloche underprint in red and ochre tones, with a repeating lattice-work border framing the entire note. At centre, a cartouche in the form of a pointed arch encloses three lines of Arabic-script text giving the issuing authority and denomination, with a further rectangular inscription panel below. Numeral value stamps appear in each corner, and a Cyrillic denomination legend in blue is printed at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a fine guilloche underprint in green and olive tones, with repeating calligraphic arabesque panels filling the entire field and a geometric border running the perimeter. At centre, a large circular vignette in black letterpress contains a ring of dense Arabic calligraphy enclosing a radiating rosette motif at its core. A handwritten Arabic numeral serial number appears in black ink at the lower centre margin, flanked by small red corner ornaments. |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic existed for barely three years as a nominally independent state — declared in September 1920 after the Red Army's assault on the emirate, and absorbed into the Soviet system by 1924. This note was issued almost immediately after that political rupture, making it one of the earliest emissions of an entity that never achieved genuine monetary stability. The Bukharan ruble series circulated alongside Soviet and Tsarist-era currency in a region where barter remained more trusted than paper.
P#S1027 falls within a body of issues that are now genuinely scarce, largely because the state itself vanished so quickly and redemption or destruction of local currency followed Soviet consolidation of Central Asia.