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2000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1993-date) |
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| Reverse description | Architectural vignette of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166), the revered Turkic Sufi poet and mystic whose spiritual legacy shaped Sufi orders across the Turkic-speaking world, rendered in detailed intaglio-style engraving. The denomination and anti-counterfeiting warning appear in Russian in Cyrillic script along the margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Kazakhstan's 1996 banknote series was the country's second issue, replacing the emergency tenge notes rushed out in 1993 when the Soviet ruble zone finally collapsed. Harrison & Sons, then still operating out of High Wycombe before the company's eventual absorption into De La Rue, produced this and other denominations in the series to a specification that prioritized durability for a country where banking infrastructure outside Almaty remained thin and notes tended to stay in circulation far longer than intended.
The 2000 tenge was the highest denomination in this series at release, a reflection of ongoing inflationary pressure through the mid-1990s that steadily eroded the purchasing power of lower values.