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| 正面描述 | Green wavy-line guilloche ground covers the entire face, bordered by a Greek-key frame. A large crescent and star occupy the upper centre, flanked by two small ornamental red seal impressions in the upper corners. A central circular cartouche carries multi-line Arabic script text, with the Arabic date ۱۳۳۷ (1337 AH) inscribed to the left. The denomination 5000 is rendered in large stylised Arabic-script numerals across the lower half of the note. |
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| 背面描述 | The reverse is printed on the same green guilloche ground with a chevron-pattern underprint and Greek-key border. Two horizontal black-printed cartouches with Arabic text are arranged in the upper and lower portions of the field, flanked by ornamental vignettes at the corners. A serial number in Arabic-script numerals appears twice in the middle register, with small green handstamp impressions alongside. |
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Bukhara's paper currency problems in the late imperial and revolutionary period were severe. The emirate had no modern printing infrastructure, and the notes issued under Emir Alim Khan in 1919 were produced under conditions of acute political pressure — the Bolsheviks were tightening their grip on Central Asia, and the emir's government would collapse entirely by September 1920 when the Red Army took Bukhara and the emirate ceased to exist.
Pick 18 belongs to a series that circulated for an extraordinarily brief window. Notes from this issue are frequently found with significant handling wear, reflecting genuine use in a collapsing economy rather than institutional hoarding.