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250 Tengas / Tingov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Tenga (1918-1922) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on a coarse woven cloth substrate with a prominent red woven border framing the entire note. The central field carries multiple ornamental cartouches and circular vignettes bearing Arabic-script inscriptions, arranged around a large central teardrop-shaped frame enclosing the main text. A crescent-and-sun motif appears near the upper centre, and two rows of Arabic calligraphic text occupy the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed on the same woven cloth substrate as the obverse, with an identical red woven border. The reverse displays a similar arrangement of ogival and circular cartouches bearing Arabic-script text, centred on a large pointed-arch frame enclosing the principal inscription. The denomination appears in the lower left in Cyrillic numerals and script, reading "250 ТИНГОВ", with additional Arabic legends distributed across the surrounding medallions. |
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Bukhara's cloth notes are among the most materially unusual issues in Central Asian numismatic history. The emirate — and then the short-lived People's Soviet Republic that replaced it — had no access to conventional banknote paper, so local textile was pressed into service as a printing substrate. The woven fabric itself functions as the security feature, since it could not be replicated by ordinary forgers lacking both the material and the equipment.
These circulated in a city that had been a major Silk Road trading hub for centuries, which lends the choice of fabric an unintentional historical resonance. Condition is almost always problematic: the cloth frays at edges, absorbs oils from handling, and fades unevenly.