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500 Tengov Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Uitgever | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is dominated by a central green guilloche underprint panel bearing the denomination numeral '500' in large stylized script at left and right, with two cartouches in Arabic script at center conveying the note's issuing authority and value. The border is composed of a repeated geometric ornamental frame in reddish-brown letterpress, with circular seal impressions at each corner. The overall design follows a traditional Central Asian typographic style with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse presents a dense green wave-pattern guilloche ground enclosed within a geometric border in teal and reddish-brown. Three black-printed rectangular text panels in Arabic script are arranged centrally — one at the upper center within a cartouche and two flanking panels below — containing the note's official legends and validity clauses. Circular seal impressions appear at upper left and upper right, and a round red control stamp is visible at lower center. |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic was proclaimed in September 1920 following the Red Army's assault on the Emirate of Bukhara — one of the last traditional Central Asian states to fall. This note was printed locally, which in practice meant primitive production conditions with no access to specialist security printing. The results are exactly what you'd expect: crude typeset design, inconsistent ink coverage, and paper sourced from whatever was available.
The issuing authority itself ceased to exist within three years, absorbed into the Soviet system by 1924. Notes from this series circulated in a region with deep-rooted bazaar economies and a population that had used Russian Imperial coinage for decades — paper money from a brand-new revolutionary state commanded little confidence.