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60 Tengas / Ten'gov
| Issuer | Bukhara People's Soviet Republic, Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in pink and green on white paper with a sawtooth border frame enclosing the entire design. A central vignette displays a yellow crescent and star, the emblem of Bukhara, flanked symmetrically by the Arabic numeral date ١٣٢١ (1321 AH) on both sides. The denomination 60 appears in numeral cartouches at the lower corners, with Arabic-script legends in rectangular panels across the upper and lower registers, and small teal-coloured denomination boxes to the left and right of centre. |
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| 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.