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25 Akşa
| Issuer | Tva Sadzoj-Yletpyrnyn Bankyzlyn (State Bank of Tannu Tuva) |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and olive tones on a light guilloche underprint with a Greek key border running the full perimeter. At centre, the large bold denomination numeral '25' and the legend 'CEERBI PEŞ AKŞA' are printed in intaglio-style letterpress, flanked by the denomination numeral '25' repeated in each corner. The header carries the inscriptions 'TЬVA ARAT RESPUBLIK' and 'TЬVA SADZOJ-YLETPYRNYN BANKYZLYN BILEDI' above a central oval vignette of the state emblem of Tannu Tuva, with a facsimile signature and the date '1935' in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | CEERBI PEŞ AKŞA Bankasan, biledi polza, aldan, örttektiç metaldar, taştakkan, mongyny polgas Tьva Sadzoj-Yletpyrnyn Bankyzlynna önke pajlaktars-pile pydyn xemeeeldiç xandırttınar. |
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Tannu Tuva occupied a peculiar political position in 1935 — nominally an independent state, the Tuvan People's Republic was in practice a Soviet satellite, and its banking infrastructure reflected that dependency entirely. The State Bank operated under close Moscow supervision, and the 1935 series was almost certainly printed in the USSR, though no Soviet printer's imprint has been conclusively documented on these notes.
The Tuvan currency series of this period is among the rarest issued by any twentieth-century state, largely because Tannu Tuva was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1944 and became Tuva Oblast. Remaining currency stocks were withdrawn and destroyed during incorporation, leaving very few notes in any condition to survive into collector hands.
The unusual Latinized Tuvan script used in the bank name reflects the alphabet reform imposed across Soviet-aligned Turkic peoples in the 1930s.