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3000 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Treasury of the Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Tenga (1801-1920) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in red and green on plain paper, with an overall guilloche wave-pattern underprint covering the central field. The denomination numeral ۳۰۰۰ appears in large Arabic script in the lower left and right corners, with a crescent and star device at upper right. Two cartouches bearing Persian/Arabic inscriptions in naskh script are centered in the middle register, with the Hijri date ۱۳۳۷ appearing at upper left. A serial number in both Arabic-script and Cyrillic numerals runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | ۳۰۰۰ (Translation: 3000) |
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The Emirate of Bukhara issued this note during an increasingly desperate period — by 1919, the emir Alim Khan was under sustained pressure from Bolshevik forces advancing through Central Asia, and the local treasury was printing high-denomination paper in an attempt to manage a collapsing economy. The 3000 tengas was among the largest denominations in the series, a figure that would have been unthinkable in pre-war Bukharan commerce.
The emirate itself would cease to exist the following year. Red Army forces took Bukhara in September 1920, ending roughly three centuries of Manghit dynasty rule and rendering this currency void almost immediately after issue.