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200 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 200 Tengov |
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| Obverse lettering | ۲۰۰ ۱۳۳۷ ДВѢСТИ ТЕНЬ ГОВЪ 200 (Translation: 200, 1337, Two Hundred Tengov) |
| Reverse description | Central crescent and star vignette in yellow-gold tint within a toothed circular border, flanked by two large oval cartouches bearing Arabic-script text. Corner blocks repeat the denomination 200 in Cyrillic (ДВѢСТИ ТЕНЬ ГОВЪ) and Arabic numerals. A central rectangular panel carries Arabic-script official text, and the overall layout is framed by a repeating guilloche border. |
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The Emirate of Bukhara issued paper currency in its final years under Emir Said Alim Khan, who had ruled since 1910 as a nominally independent sovereign under heavy Russian pressure. By 1919 the Bolsheviks were consolidating control across Central Asia, and these emergency issues were essentially a last attempt at maintaining a functioning local economy under extraordinary duress. The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic would be proclaimed in 1920 following the Red Army's assault on the city.
The tenga had been the traditional monetary unit of the region for centuries, so the denomination carried real local weight even as the issuing authority was days from extinction.