3000 Tengas Treasury

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.