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100 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a portrait vignette of Abu Ibrohim Ismoili ibni Ahmad Somonī (849–907), founder of the Samanid dynasty and emir of Transoxiana (892–907) and Khorasan (900–907), set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. To the right, a vignette of the Mausoleum of Ismoili Somonī in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, rendered in fine detail. Tajik Cyrillic inscriptions in the upper and lower registers identify the issuing authority and state the denomination. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF TAJIKISTAN ONE HUNDRED SOMONI БАРОИ ҚАЛБАКӢ СОХТАНИ БИЛЕТҲОИ БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН МУВОФИҚИ ҚОНУН ҶАЗО ДОДА МЕШОВАД (Translation: Counterfeit banknotes of the National Bank of Tajikistan shall be punished in accordance with the law) |
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The 100 Somoni was part of the inaugural somoni series introduced in October 2000, when Tajikistan replaced the Tajik ruble — itself a transitional currency that had been in use since 1995 following the collapse of the Soviet ruble zone. The replacement came after years of civil war that had gutted the country's economy and left inflation chronic. Giesecke & Devrient, who printed the series from Munich, produced notes of noticeably high technical quality relative to the issuing country's economic circumstances at the time.
The denomination is named after the Samanid ruler Ismoil Somoni, a choice with deliberate nation-building intent in a newly post-Soviet state searching for pre-Russian historical identity.