Catalog
200 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | وزارت مالیا ДВЕСТИ ТЕНГ ОВЪ 200 |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on the same gold crescent and star vignette, positioned in the upper half of the note. Below the crescent, a large black typeset panel contains multi-line Arabic and Cyrillic text recording the issuing authority and value declaration. Two orange oval cartouches flank the central text block, each bearing Arabic inscriptions, while corner stamp-panels repeat the Cyrillic denomination legend ДВЕСТИ ТЕНГОВЪ and the numeral 200 in red. |
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The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic was a short-lived Soviet client state carved out of the former Khanate of Khiva in 1920 — which creates an immediate problem with the 1918 date on this note. Khorezm did not exist as a political entity until February 1920. The date almost certainly refers to a Soviet calendar conversion or a pre-revolutionary dating convention carried over in the printing, not to actual issue in 1918.
These early Khorezm treasury emissions were produced under severe material constraints, and the series is notable for its crude typography relative to contemporary Soviet issues elsewhere in Central Asia.