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20 Som
| Issuer | Kyrgyz Bank (Кыргыз Банкы) |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Kyrgyz poet and manaschi Toğolok Moldo (1860–1942) at centre-right, wearing a traditional fur hat, with his name and dates inscribed below the vignette. The dominant red-brown colour scheme is overlaid with intricate guilloche underprint and traditional Kyrgyz ornamental patterns; a large numeral '20' in optically variable ink appears at centre-left, flanked by vertical serial numbers and a decorative border panel on the right margin. The bank title КЫРГЫЗ БАНКЫ is printed at upper left, with the denomination ЖЫЙЫРМА СОМ in bold letterpress along the lower edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | КЫРГЫЗ БАНКЫ төрага 20 ЖЫЙЫРМА СОМ ТОГОЛОК МОЛДО (1860-1942) |
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The 20 Som was part of a modest redesign push by the Kyrgyz Bank in the early 2000s following persistent counterfeiting concerns with the first-series notes introduced after independence in 1993. The addition of optically variable ink to this denomination was a meaningful upgrade for a country whose earlier issues had relied on comparatively basic security measures — the original 1993 som series had been produced under considerable time pressure as Kyrgyzstan rushed to exit the Soviet ruble zone ahead of neighboring republics.
Pick 19 superseded Pick 13, the 1994-dated predecessor to this value.