2000 Tenge

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.