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| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic, Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the sawtooth border frame in pink with the central crescent and star vignette in yellow. The denomination 65 appears in numeral cartouches at upper centre and flanking positions, while Cyrillic text reading ШЕСТЬ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЕНЬ ГОВЪ is printed in two vertical blocks to the left and right of the central emblem. Arabic-script panels occupy the upper and lower registers, and teal cartouches carry the Arabic word for the denomination at the outer left and right edges. |
| Reverse lettering | ШЕСТЬ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЕНЬ ГОВЪ ٦٥ 60 |
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The Bukhara People's Soviet Republic did not actually exist in 1918 — the Emirate of Bukhara was not overthrown until the Red Army assault of September 1920. These early Soviet-era notes were issued under transitional or provisional authority, and the attribution of issuing body in many catalogs reflects post-hoc Soviet administrative labeling rather than the political reality at the time of printing.
The 60 tengas denomination is itself worth noting. It is not a round figure by any conventional monetary logic, and its appearance alongside other odd denominations in this series reflects acute small-change shortages in Central Asia during the revolutionary period, when metal coinage had largely disappeared from circulation.