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5.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara Emirate Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Tenga (1918-1920) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a light green guilloche ground with a chevron-patterned central band. Two rectangular black letterpress text panels are set horizontally across the upper and lower portions of the note, each containing Arabic script legends. The serial number is printed twice in green ink on a pale ground in the middle register, flanked by small stamped ornamental devices in red at the corners. |
| Reverse lettering | ١٨٥٣١٦ |
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The Bukhara Emirate's paper currency of 1918 was a desperation measure. The Emir's treasury had functioned for centuries on metallic coinage — the tanga in silver and copper — and paper money carried no cultural legitimacy in the region. These notes were produced locally under severe material constraints, which shows in the printing quality: ink registration is frequently poor across the series, and paper stock varied between print runs.
The emirate itself was dissolved by Bolshevik forces in September 1920, less than two years after this issue. Most of the paper currency became worthless almost immediately, yet survival rates are surprisingly uneven — some denominations are common, others nearly impossible to locate.