Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Manat
| Issuer | Central State Bank of Turkmenistan |
|---|---|
| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse, rendered in red and salmon tones over a multicolour guilloche underprint, carries at centre-right a detailed intaglio vignette of the mausoleum of Il Arslan (Ilarslanyn Yadygarligi), a 12th-century Seljuk funerary monument with its characteristic conical brick spire and arched portal. To the left, the circular State Emblem of Turkmenistan is rendered within an ornate medallion. Denomination numerals appear in guilloche cartouches at each corner, and the value tablet 'BIR MANAT' is set in a decorative panel at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Horse rearing on its hind legs |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The first banknote issued by an independent Turkmenistan, this 1 Manat was part of the inaugural series printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company — an Ottawa firm that secured a significant share of post-Soviet central Asian printing contracts in the early 1990s as newly sovereign states scrambled to establish currencies. Turkmenistan had only formally introduced the manat in November 1993, replacing Soviet rubles at a rate of 500 rubles to 1 manat.
The watermark is the sole security feature — modest by any measure, but not unusual for a first issue produced under considerable time pressure.