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1000 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Tenga (1801-1920) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a crescent and star in gold and red tones, set within a circular underprint on a pink guilloche background. Multiple boxed typeset inscriptions in Arabic script and Cyrillic surround the central motif, with the denomination numeral 1000 repeated in several cartouches across the lower register. The Cyrillic denomination legend appears in a prominent black rectangular panel at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse description | Central crescent and star device in gold and red, enclosed within an oval panel filled with Arabic calligraphic text, set against a pink guilloche underprint. Denomination numerals 1000 appear in blue and red boxed cartouches at each corner and along the side borders, with additional Arabic script inscriptions in rectangular frames. The Cyrillic denomination legend is printed in a black panel at the bottom centre. |
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Bukhara's paper currency experiment was brief and chaotic. The Emirate issued these treasury notes in 1919 under Emir Alim Khan, partly to manage the financial strain of maintaining his court and armed forces while Bolshevik pressure from the north intensified. Within a year, the Red Army overran Bukhara, the Emirate was dissolved in September 1920, and the currency became worthless overnight.
The notes circulated almost entirely within a collapsing state, which means surviving examples that saw genuine use are far less common than their apparently modest denomination suggests. Many were rendered void before they could be redeemed.