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200 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Treasury of the Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 200 Tengov |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire field, enclosed within a decorative border of interlocking geometric motifs. A central cartouche in red letterpress bears Arabic-script inscriptions with the denomination, flanked by ornamental rosettes at the four corners bearing the numeral value. The Cyrillic and Arabic denomination inscriptions appear along the lower margin within a rectangular panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | ۲۰۰ 200•ТЕНЬГОВЪ (Translation: 200 Tengov) |
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The Emirate of Bukhara's paper currency program was always precarious, and by 1920 it was effectively over. The Red Army took Bukhara in September of that year, deposing Emir Alim Khan and establishing the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic within weeks. Notes issued in 1920 thus circulated — if they circulated at all — during a violent transition, and many will have been rendered worthless almost immediately upon issue.
The tenge denomination places this squarely in the older Central Asian monetary reckoning, where 20 tenge equaled one tenga (sometimes rendered "tanga"), itself a unit with deep Silk Road commercial roots. The Treasury — not a formal bank — produced these under conditions that were logistically strained at best.
Printing quality across this series is notoriously inconsistent, and misaligned impressions are common enough to be considered typical rather than exceptional.