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2.500 Tengas / Tingov
| Issuer | Bukharan Soviet People's Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on woven cotton-linen fabric with a salmon-pink border running along all edges. The central vignette consists of a large oval medallion surmounted by a crescent and stylized sunburst, flanked by multiple circular guilloche medallions of varying sizes arranged across the field. An arched vignette occupies the upper left, with Arabic script inscriptions and a rectangular panel below it. A red official stamp is partially visible at left, and handwritten notations appear within the central medallion. |
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| Obverse lettering | ٢٥٠٠ |
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The Bukharan Soviet People's Republic was a short-lived entity — it existed formally from 1920, which makes the 1918 date on this note a product of the transitional chaos that preceded the Soviet-backed overthrow of the Emirate of Bukhara. The treasury was effectively improvising: no adequate printing infrastructure existed locally, so these were produced on fabric rather than conventional banknote paper, a practical workaround given supply conditions in a landlocked Central Asian city under economic siege.
The tenge/tinga denomination itself was inherited from pre-Soviet Central Asian monetary custom. This issue circulated alongside Emirate coinage and Russian Imperial-era paper, in a region where multiple currencies competed for acceptance simultaneously.