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10 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2000-2010 |
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| Size | 147 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left centre, an intaglio portrait vignette of the Tajik mystic poet and thinker Mir Sayid Ali Hamadoni (1314–1384) is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint, accompanied by an ink tray and manuscript paper as symbolic attributes. The issuer's name in Tajik Cyrillic script and the denomination numeral appear within the principal lettering field. |
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| Protection description | Mir Sayid Ali Hamadoni's portrait; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The somoni was introduced in October 2000, replacing the Tajik ruble at a rate of 1 somoni to 1,000 rubles — itself a currency that had only existed since 1995 when Tajikistan broke from the Russian ruble zone. The new denomination structure was designed partly to distance the country from the hyperinflationary chaos that had followed the 1992–1997 civil war, during which the economy contracted by roughly 50 percent.
Pick 16 is among the lower-denomination notes of the inaugural somoni series. The series was printed by Goznak, the Russian state printing enterprise, an arrangement that carried obvious political overtones for a newly independent state still heavily within Moscow's economic orbit.