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5 Manat
| Issuer | National Bank of Azerbaijan |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Size | 127 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | BEŞ MANAT (Translation: Five Manat) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Robert Kalina designed this note the same year his euro banknote designs entered circulation across the eurozone — Azerbaijan effectively hired the man of the moment. The OeBS contract for the Azerbaijani manat series followed a broader post-Soviet pattern of young Caucasian states outsourcing security printing to established European houses while domestic infrastructure remained undeveloped.
The 2005 manat series replaced a severely devalued transitional currency at a rate that wiped out four zeros, a redenomination timed to coincide with rising oil revenues from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline coming online.