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3000 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Treasury of the Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 3000 Tengov |
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| Obverse lettering | ۱۳۳۷ ۳000 3000,ТЕНЬГОВЪ (Translation: 1337, 3,000 Tengov) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and green with a fine diaper guilloche underprint across the entire field, framed by a decorative border of repeating foliate motifs in green. A large central cartouche in green bears the Arabic-script treasury inscription, flanked by two smaller green cartouches with Arabic text at lower left and right. A crescent and star device appears at upper right, and an octagonal ornamental device is placed at upper left, with the Hijri date ۱۳۳۷ repeated in the lower corners. |
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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.