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300 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed note on plain paper with a red-brown border frame enclosing multiple compartments in varied colours. Two black-printed Arabic-script inscription panels occupy the upper corners, flanking a central arched arch motif with a faint yellow crescent stamp at centre. Below, two blue-printed denomination cartouches appear at left and right, with a serial number in Arabic-Eastern numerals running across the middle register. The lower section contains a cluster of small rectangular and square vignettes in blue, red, and green carrying the denomination '300' in Arabic-Eastern numerals at each outer corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | ٣٠٠ ٣۵۵ |
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Bukhara's 1918 currency was printed locally under conditions that showed. The Emirate's treasury lacked access to professional printing equipment, and the tengas produced that year were essentially hand-stamped or rudimentarily typeset — crude even by wartime standards. Bukhara remained under the Emir's control until 1920, which raises the persistent question of exactly which authority actually authorized and distributed this note during the transitional political chaos preceding the Soviet-backed overthrow.
The "People's Soviet Republic" designation is technically an anachronism for 1918 — that government wasn't formally proclaimed until September 1920. Notes attributed to this issuer and this date require careful scrutiny of provenance.