Catalog
10 000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Value | 10 000 Tenge (10 000 KZT) |
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| Obverse description | The Baiterek monument and observation tower of Astana occupies the central vignette, with an intaglio palm-print bearing President Nursultan Nazarbayev's signature — a design element unique to this denomination — set against a guilloche underprint incorporating fragments of the National Anthem's musical score. The State Emblem of the Republic of Kazakhstan is positioned to the upper right, with the national flag rendered across the background field. The denomination value and statutory warnings appear in Kazakh in letterpress along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Reverse description | A large-format map of Kazakhstan forms the dominant central vignette, rendered in intaglio with stylised landscape and wildlife motifs — including sea birds — overlaid across the territory. The neoclassical facade of the Akorda Presidential Palace is depicted in intaglio at the lower centre, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in blue and violet tones, with the denomination numeral 10000 in large letterpress at the lower left. Statutory warnings and the issuer name appear in Russian and Kazakh along the margins. |
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Kazakhstan's own banknote printing facility in Almaty — established in 1997 and one of relatively few such state-owned presses in the former Soviet space — produced this note entirely domestically, a point of some political significance for a country that had only introduced the tenge in 1993 after a chaotic exit from the ruble zone. The 10,000 tenge was the highest denomination in circulation at the time of issue, reflecting cumulative inflation since independence rather than any acute monetary crisis.
Colour-shifting ink on this series is applied to the numeral, a feature Kazakhstan adopted in step with international high-denomination security standards of the mid-2000s.