Catalog
300 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic, Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#13 |
| Obverse description | The face is printed in red, green, blue, and brown on white paper and arranged in a series of rectangular and arched panels. A central pointed-arch vignette carries a crescent moon and star in gold and yellow — the traditional Islamic emblem — flanked by panels bearing Arabic-script inscriptions and denomination numerals. Cyrillic legends reading "ТРИСТА ТЕНЬГОВЪ" appear in the lower register, with handwritten manuscript notations occupying the middle band. |
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| Obverse lettering | ٣٠٠ ٣٠٠ ТРИСТА ТЕНЬГОВЪ |
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The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was a short-lived Soviet satellite that replaced the Emirate of Bukhara in 1920 — yet this note predates that transition, issued under the crumbling Emirate's final administrative structures in 1918. The dating alone makes the issuing authority attribution complicated: "People's Soviet Republic" branding was retrospectively applied to earlier emissions as the new regime consolidated control and absorbed existing Treasury stocks.
The tenga itself was a Central Asian unit with deep roots in the region's khanate-era coinage, and its survival into paper form reflects how thoroughly local monetary custom resisted Russification well into the Soviet period.