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5000 Roubles Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1038 |
| Obverse description | Green and red letterpress note with an overall chevron-pattern guilloche underprint framed by a decorative geometric border. A central cartouche in a cusped ogival form carries the denomination and issuing authority text in Arabic script, flanked at left by an oval seal with crescent and star motif and at upper right by a crescent and star device. Three rectangular panels below the central cartouche bear manuscript-style signatures and official stamps, with the serial number repeated in Arabic numerals at upper left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | بخارا شوروی خلق جمهوریتی |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic was a short-lived Soviet client state established in September 1920 after the Red Army overthrew the Emirate of Bukhara — the last functioning emirate in Central Asia. Currency was issued almost immediately, partly as a practical necessity and partly as a political act: the new regime needed to displace the emir's coinage and assert administrative legitimacy across a territory where barter and silver coin had long dominated.
These high-denomination rouble notes were printed under extremely rudimentary conditions, and the series is known for inconsistent ink application and rough cuts. The Soviet Union formally absorbed Bukhara in 1924 during the national delimitation of Central Asia, rendering the entire currency series obsolete within four years of issue.