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500 Som
| Issuer | Kyrgyz Bank |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 500 Som (500 KGS) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sayaqbay Qaralaev (1894–1971), the celebrated manaschi and master reciter of the Kyrgyz epic 'Manas', occupies the right half of the note against a rose-toned guilloche underprint with interlaced floral ornamental patterns. The denomination numeral '500' appears in large format at lower left and upper right corners, with the bank title 'КЫРГЫЗ БАНКЫ' across the top and the spelled value 'БЕШ ЖҮЗ СОМ' along the lower margin. A holographic security foil patch is affixed to the left-center field, incorporating repeated 'KS' and '500' microtext elements. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Sayaqbay Qaralaev with electrotype '500'; holographic foil patch with repeated 'KS' and '500' microtext; embedded security thread |
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Kyrgyzstan's 500 Som denomination entered circulation as part of the country's ongoing effort to stabilize its currency system after the Som's introduction in May 1993 — a unilateral break from the ruble zone that caught Moscow off guard and left Kyrgyzstan temporarily isolated from CIS trade arrangements. By 2000, the National Bank had accumulated enough experience with counterfeiting pressures to justify the hologram strip, which was relatively advanced for Central Asian issues at that point.
Pick 17 is the first 500 Som to incorporate the full three-layer security package. Earlier high-denomination Kyrgyz notes had relied on watermark and thread alone.