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5.000 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Treasury of the Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5.000 Tengas |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green wave guilloche underprint covers the entire field, framed by a geometric border with corner ornaments in red. A central circular medallion contains Arabic script text, flanked by the denomination numeral repeated in large stylised characters on either side; a crescent and star device appears in the upper right. Red seal stamps occupy the upper corners, and a green oval cartouche is positioned to the upper left of the central medallion. |
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| Obverse lettering | ٥٠٠٠ تنگه |
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The Emirate of Bukhara's paper currency was a late and reluctant concession to modern monetary practice. Emir Alim Khan, the last ruler of Bukhara, had long resisted replacing metal coinage with paper, and these notes were issued under acute pressure — the collapse of regional trade networks following the Russian Revolution had made silver and copper increasingly impossible to obtain in sufficient quantities for everyday exchange.
Pick 10A is among the rarer variants of the 1918 emission, distinguished by subtle typographic differences from the more commonly encountered 10B. Bukharan paper money of this period deteriorates badly in humid storage — foxing and brittleness are endemic to surviving examples, a direct consequence of the low-grade local paper stock used.