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1000 Tengov Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid over a dense guilloche underprint with a continuous meander-key border along all four margins, from which circular cartouches at each corner carry Arabic calligraphic inscriptions. A crescent motif appears at the top centre above the principal text panel rendered in Persian-Arabic script, while the lower centre bears a date cartouche with the Islamic calendar year set within an oval frame against a fine cross-hatched guilloche ground. The overall composition is characteristic of early Soviet Central Asian emergency issues, combining Eastern calligraphic tradition with Western banknote printing conventions. |
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| Reverse lettering | جمهوریت شورویی بخارا |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic existed for barely three years before being absorbed into the Soviet Union, making its entire currency output a footnote in the broader story of Soviet consolidation in Central Asia. This 1000 tengov note was issued following the Red Army's storming of Bukhara in September 1920 — an event Lenin personally authorized — which ended the emirate and installed a nominally independent people's republic that was Soviet in everything but name.
The tengo itself was a continuation of local monetary tradition rather than a Soviet imposition; the new government kept the familiar unit precisely because the population mistrusted anything too foreign. The republic's paper issues circulated alongside Russian sovznaki and a chaotic mix of earlier emirate coinage.