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3000 Roubles Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche underprint in green and brown, with a central cartouche bearing Arabic-script inscription stating the denomination and issuing authority. Three oval panels below the central cartouche carry additional Arabic text, likely signature and validation legends, set within an elaborate geometric border with repeated meander motifs. A crescent and star device appears at upper right within a separate panel, reflecting the transitional Islamic-Soviet symbolic vocabulary of the Bukharan republic. |
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| Reverse lettering | 3000 РУБЛЕЙ 1920 |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic existed for barely three years — declared in September 1920 after the Red Army stormed the Emirate of Bukhara and deposed Emir Alim Khan, it was absorbed into the Uzbek SSR in 1924. This 3,000 rouble note belongs to the chaotic first currency emissions of that short-lived entity, issued while the new administration was still consolidating control over a region with deep-rooted bazaar economies and entrenched distrust of paper instruments.
The denomination itself signals inflation already biting hard in 1920. Printing arrangements for this series remain poorly documented in Western literature.