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2 Tenga - Muhammad Alim Khan bin Abdul-Ahad
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | بخارا ضرب ۱۳۳۶ (Translation: Struck in Bukhara 1336) |
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| Mintage | 1336 (1918) - ۱۳۳۶ - 1337 (1919) - ۱۳۳۷ - |
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Muhammad Alim Khan was the last Emir of Bukhara, and this issue belongs to the chaotic final years of his reign as Bolshevik forces closed in from the north. The emirate had been a Russian protectorate since 1868, but retained the right to strike its own coinage — a right that became increasingly symbolic as the Red Army consolidated Central Asia. Alim Khan fled to Afghanistan in September 1920 when the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was declared, ending over three centuries of Manghit dynasty rule.
Bronze issues of this period were struck under severe material constraints, and the quality of the planchets reflects it.