50 Tengas / Tingov

The Emirate of Bukhara's 1918 paper emissions were crisis instruments, produced as the old silver tanga coinage became impossible to circulate in sufficient quantity amid the chaos following the Russian Revolution. Bukhara remained nominally independent under Emir Alim Khan while Soviet pressure mounted — these treasury notes belong to that brief, unstable window before the Red Army effectively ended Bukharan autonomy in 1920.

The series is typographically simple, printed locally rather than by a professional security printer, which accounts for the crude registration and variation in ink saturation found across surviving examples.