Catalog
500 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a crescent and six-pointed star in yellow-gold, flanked by ornamental cartouches with Arabic inscriptions in red at upper left and right corners. The Hijri date 1337 appears in Arabic numerals across the centre, with the denomination 500 rendered in both Arabic-Eastern and Western numerals flanking the date. Cyrillic legends reading ПЯТЬСОТЪ ТЕНЬГОВЪ appear in red letterpress panels at lower left and right, with further Arabic text in decorative bordered panels along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | ۵۰۰ 500 ПЯТЬСОТЪ ТЕНЬГОВЪ (Translation: 500, Five Hundred Tengov) |
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The Emirate of Bukhara issued paper currency in its final years under Emir Said Alim Khan, as the collapsing regional economy and the pressures of Russian Civil War-era disruption made coin-based trade increasingly impractical. These emergency treasury notes were produced under desperate conditions and circulated within a monetary system already on the verge of collapse — the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was proclaimed in 1920, effectively ending the emirate.
Survival rates are low. Notes from this issue suffered both from poor-quality wartime paper and from the political rupture that followed, which removed any incentive for organized preservation.