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5 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2019-2023 |
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| Value | 5 Somoni |
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| Obverse description | Central effigy of Sadriddin Ayni (С. Айни), the celebrated Tajik writer and scholar, depicted as a bearded bust facing slightly left, wearing a traditional embroidered skullcap (tubeteika), set within a recessed circular field. The name С. АЙНИ appears in Cyrillic script beneath the portrait. The circumferential legend ҶУМҲУРИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН (Republic of Tajikistan) arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination ПАНҶ СОМОНӢ (Five Somonī) runs along the lower periphery, flanked by raised dot stops on either side. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Tajikistan's somoni-denominated coinage series takes its name from Ismoil Somoni, the 9th-century Samanid ruler whose empire controlled much of Central Asia from its capital at Bukhara. The Samanid dynasty was among the first to promote Persian as an administrative and literary language after the Arab conquest — a point of deliberate cultural assertion in a country that shares ethnic and linguistic ties with Iran but spent seven decades under Soviet administrative identity.
The 5 somoni is the highest circulating denomination in the series, introduced as Tajikistan worked to reduce dependence on small-denomination notes in everyday transactions.