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5 Tenga - Sayyid Abdullah and Junaid Khan Sun full, decorative border
| Issuer | Khanate of Khiva |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | خوارزم الاسلام دار ضرب ١٣٣٧ (Translation: zarb Dar al-Islam Khwarezm / 1337 Struck in Dar al-Islam Khwarezm / 1337) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Struck in the final months of the Khanate of Khiva's existence, this coin was issued jointly under Sayyid Abdullah Khan and the warlord Junaid Khan, who had effectively seized control of the khanate as a military strongman while keeping the khan as a figurehead. The arrangement was unstable from the start. Within months, the Red Army crossed into Khiva, the khanate was abolished in February 1920, and the short-lived Khorezm People's Soviet Republic replaced it entirely.
Bronze coinage of this period was improvised under severe material constraints, with composition varying noticeably across surviving examples.