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1 Somoni
| Issuer | Bonki Millii Tochikiston / National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Somoni (1999-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in teal and olive tones on a light ground with a fine guilloche underprint. A portrait vignette of Ismoil Somoni occupies the right-centre of the note, rendered in intaglio, with a globe and map of Tajikistan visible to his left. The bank title БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОЧИКИСТОН appears in Cyrillic across the upper field, the denomination numeral 1 and the legend ЯК СОМОНИ are printed in the lower centre, and the date 1999 appears at lower left alongside two facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in green and olive hues, centred on a detailed intaglio vignette of the National Bank of Tajikistan building in Dushanbe, rendered in a formal architectural style with a landscaped foreground. The inscription NATIONAL BANK OF TAJIKISTAN runs along the upper left, the denomination numeral 1 appears at upper right alongside a vignette of the Tajik national flag in colour, and the legend БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОЧИКИСТОН is printed along the lower margin. A multilingual legal tender text panel in Cyrillic script is positioned at lower right. |
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Tajikistan's first post-Soviet currency, the Tajik ruble, collapsed under hyperinflation so severe that by the late 1990s the largest circulating denomination was 500 rubles — worth fractions of a US cent. The somoni series introduced in 2000 was named after Ismoil Somoni, the ninth-century Samanid ruler, a deliberate choice by a government trying to anchor national identity in pre-Russian, pre-Soviet history. This 1 Somoni was among the founding denominations of that reform, printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig ahead of the official introduction date.
The 1999 date reflects the print year, not the circulation date — the somoni did not legally replace the Tajik ruble until October 30, 2000, at a rate of 1 somoni to 1,000 rubles.