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500 Tengas Treasury
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 500 Tengov |
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| Reverse description | Central motif of a crescent and six-pointed star in yellow-gold set within an ornate pointed oval cartouche bearing Arabic text, printed on a light guilloche underprint. Two red cartouches with Arabic inscriptions flank the central device at upper left and right, with green oval panels containing Arabic text positioned at mid-left and mid-right. Cyrillic denomination panels reading ПЯТЬСОТЪ ТЕНЬГОВЪ appear in red letterpress at lower centre-left and centre-right, with numeral value boxes at the outer lower corners. |
| 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.