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20 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 20 Tenge (20 KZT) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, an intaglio portrait of the Kazakh poet and enlightener Abay Ibrahim Qunanbayuly (1845–1904) is set against a fine guilloche underprint in muted tones, with his name and life dates inscribed below the vignette. The issuer name in Kazakh Cyrillic appears along the upper and lower borders, while the denomination numeral and year of issue flank the portrait field. Traditional Kazakh national ornamentation frames the overall composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ 20 ЖИЫРМА ТЕҢГЕ (Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, Twenty Tenge) |
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Kazakhstan's first banknote series, introduced in November 1993, replaced the Russian ruble overnight — the government gave citizens three days to exchange holdings, a hard cap deliberately set to limit the amount of ruble-denominated savings that could convert into the new currency. The 1993 series was rushed into circulation as part of that abrupt monetary transition, and Harrison & Sons handled the entire print run from London before Kazakhstan had established any domestic printing capacity.
The watermark is the sole security feature — thin protection, but consistent with what was feasible on the compressed production timeline Kazakhstan was working against.