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500 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and grey intaglio print on a guilloche underprint; at left, a profile vignette of the Transcaspian urial (Ovis vignei arkal) head, accompanied by a stylised DNA spiral and a detail of the sacred "Tree of Life" branch with hovering bird derived from the 3rd–4th century BCE "Golden Man" headgear recovered at the Issyk kurgan burial mound. The national emblem appears to the right, with a windowed security thread bearing demetalized text running vertically through the note. |
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| Protection description | Samruk bird with electrotype 500; windowed security thread with demetalized text. |
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Kazakhstan operates its own banknote printing facility in Almaty — one of relatively few central Asian states with fully domestic production capacity. The factory has been printing the national currency since 1997, shortly after the tenge itself was introduced in November 1993 to replace the Soviet ruble following independence.
The security specification here is notably lean for a 2025-dated note — watermark and thread without the optically variable elements now common in contemporaneous issues from neighboring central banks. Whether that reflects a deliberate cost tier for this denomination or an incomplete catalog entry remains to be confirmed.