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2.500 Tengas / Tingov = 500 Rubles
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 2.500 Tengas |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed on silk with a pink border, centres on an oval vignette containing a portrait bust rendered in pale ink, surrounded by a wreath-like frame with Arabic calligraphic text forming a circular legend. Numerous seal-like roundels with Arabic inscriptions are distributed around the margins in a pattern mirroring the obverse, while a rectangular text block with additional Arabic legends is positioned at the centre-right of the composition. |
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| Protection description | The note is printed on woven silk cloth rather than paper, serving as an inherent anti-counterfeiting measure. |
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Bukhara's 1918 emergency issues are among the most unusual fabric-based notes produced anywhere during the revolutionary period. The emirate, then nominally independent under Emir Alim Khan but increasingly hemmed in by Bolshevik pressure from Tashkent, resorted to silk as a substrate precisely because paper was unavailable in sufficient quantity — not as an aesthetic choice but as a logistical one. The denomination pairing reflects the collision of two monetary systems: local tengas alongside the ruble equivalency imposed by the reality of regional trade.
Silk notes from this series survive in surprisingly variable condition; the weave holds ink differently than paper, making clean impressions rare.