2.000 Tengas / Ten'gov

The Bukhara Emirate's paper money experiment was brief and politically desperate. By 1918 the emirate was caught between Bolshevik pressure from the north and internal instability, and these treasury notes were issued without the backing infrastructure a functioning monetary system requires. The Emir Alim Khan's government had no established central bank — the treasury issued directly, an arrangement that collapsed within a few years when the Red Army took Bukhara in 1920.

Printed locally rather than by a European security printer, the notes show it. Surviving examples frequently display uneven ink distribution and misaligned impressions — not damage, but production quality consistent across the type.