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100 Manat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Printer | Giesecke & Devrient, Munich |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Saparmyrat Nyýazow (Türkmenbaşy) at centre, with the State Emblem of Turkmenistan to one side, set against a guilloche underprint. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in the Turkmen Latin script. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Turkmenistan's 2005 banknote series was issued under the presidency of Saparmurat Niyazov — "Turkmenbashi," father of all Turkmen — whose personality cult extended to renaming months of the year after himself and his mother. The currency itself was part of a broader apparatus of national mythology, with denominations tied closely to the iconography of the state he had constructed since independence in 1991.
Giesecke & Devrient had been the primary supplier for Turkmen banknotes since the manat's introduction in 1993. Niyazov died in December 2006, and his successor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow eventually oversaw a complete currency redenomination in 2009, retiring this series at a rate of 5,000 old manat to one new manat — rendering the entire 2005 issue obsolete within four years of printing.