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200 Tenge

Issuer National Bank of Kazakhstan
Year 1993
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In circulation to 31 August 2012
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Reverse lettering БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ ЕКІ ЖҮЗ 200 ТЕҢГЕ
(Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, Two Hundred Tenge)
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Variants P#14a(1) - letters "Ы" and "EH" in words "БАНКНОТТАРДЫ" and "ЗАНМЕН" at upper right on back in partly red color
P#14a(2) - letters "Ы" and "EH" in words "БАНКНОТТАРДЫ" and "ЗАНМЕН" at upper right on back in black color
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Kazakhstan's first national currency series, introduced after the country broke from the Soviet ruble zone in November 1993, was printed entirely abroad — Harrison & Sons had long experience producing notes for post-colonial and newly independent states, and Kazakhstan joined a long queue of former Soviet republics scrambling to establish independent monetary systems that year. The transition was swift and deliberately secretive; the new tenge was introduced over a single weekend to prevent capital flight and currency speculation.

Harrison's intaglio work on this series is competent but unremarkable by the firm's standards. The 1993 issues were replaced relatively quickly as Kazakhstan's central bank moved toward domestically produced notes in subsequent years.

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