3.000 Tengas / Ten'gov

The Emirate of Bukhara's 1918 paper issues were a direct response to the near-total collapse of metal coinage circulation across Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. The traditional tanga was a copper coin; issuing paper denominated in tangas was a significant break with local monetary practice, and the population treated these notes with predictable suspicion.

Emir Alim Khan's government had little printing infrastructure of its own. These notes are notably crude by contemporary standards — a reflection of local production rather than any established state printing works. The Bolsheviks abolished the emirate in 1920, making the entire paper series short-lived and cutting off any possibility of redemption.