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5000 Roubles Bukhara Soviet Peoples Republic
| Issuer | Bukhara Soviet People's Republic |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown to pink on uncoloured paper, the obverse carries the state arms of the Bukharan Soviet People's Republic within a circular vignette at upper left. The central field presents the denomination in both Arabic script and Cyrillic numerals (5000 РУБЛЕЙ) within ornate cartouches framed by intricate arabesque guilloche borders. Inscriptions in Arabic script occupy the upper and lower registers, with additional Cyrillic denomination panels at lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown on uncoloured paper, the reverse presents a central panel enclosed within an elaborate arabesque guilloche border carrying multi-line Arabic script text setting out the guarantee and legal tender provisions of the note, with the date 1922 in Western numerals at the foot. Denomination numerals in Arabic script (٥٠٠٠) and Cyrillic (5000) appear in oval cartouches at left and right, repeated in the four corners. |
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The Bukhara Soviet People's Republic was a short-lived Soviet satellite state established in 1920 after the Red Army overthrew the Emirate of Bukhara. It issued its own currency — the tenga — but by 1922 hyperinflationary pressure across the former Russian sphere was forcing denominations into the thousands. This 5,000-rouble emission sits at the tail end of the republic's independent monetary existence; Bukhara was formally absorbed into the Soviet system in 1924 when the USSR's national delimitation carved it between the new Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs.
Notes of this series are genuinely scarce. The republic's institutions were dismantled quickly, and surviving paper from this period is fragmentary at best.