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50 Tengov Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey guilloche underprint covers the entire field, with a dense zigzag border running along all four edges. A central oval vignette in yellow-ochre carries Arabic calligraphic inscriptions, flanked on either side by two circular red seals bearing Arabic script. The denomination '50 TENG' is inscribed in Latin characters along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Brown wavy-line guilloche fills the background, framed by a repeating geometric border. A large central circular vignette in black contains three interlocking curved sections with dense Arabic calligraphic text and a small central ornament, recalling a traditional seal design. In the upper corners appear a small floral roundel at left and a Soviet star-and-crescent emblem at right, while a handwritten Arabic numeral serial appears below the central vignette. |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic was a short-lived entity — formally proclaimed in September 1920 after the Red Army overthrew the Emirate of Bukhara, and absorbed into the Uzbek SSR by 1924. This note belongs to an emergency monetary system assembled almost from scratch, issued by a state that had no functioning central bank and was conducting simultaneous experiments in governance, collectivization, and currency design.
The Bukharan series is frequently encountered with significant foxing and paper brittleness, a known condition issue attributed to the low-grade local paper stock used under wartime supply constraints. Crisp survivors are genuinely uncommon.