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2000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Size | 144 × 69 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an architectural vignette of the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166), the influential Turkic Sufi poet and mystic whose teachings shaped the development of Sufi orders across the Turkic-speaking world. The structure is rendered with fine line engraving against a guilloche underprint incorporating traditional ornamental motifs. The denomination and issuing authority legends appear in Russian, flanking the central architectural composition. |
| Reverse lettering | ПОДДЕЛКА БАНКНОТ ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ 2000 ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ ТЕНГЕ (Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, Two Thousand Tenge) |
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Kazakhstan established its own banknote printing facility in Almaty in 1997, making this note one of the earlier products of that domestic operation — a deliberate move away from reliance on foreign security printers following independence. The 2000 tenge denomination was introduced as part of a 1999–2000 series refresh that followed the country's painful currency crisis of 1999, when the tenge was floated and lost roughly a third of its value against the dollar almost overnight.
Security specification on this issue is relatively modest for the period — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable devices that would appear on later Kazakhstani high-denomination issues.