10.000 Tenge

Kazakhstan's highest-denomination note at the time of its introduction, the 10,000 Tenge was printed by Goznak in Moscow — a practical inheritance from Soviet-era infrastructure that Kazakhstan, like several post-Soviet states, continued to rely on well into the 2000s for high-security currency production. The arrangement was never especially advertised.

The holographic stripe on this series was a significant upgrade over earlier Tenge issues and reflects the National Bank's ongoing response to sophisticated counterfeiting pressure that had plagued lower denominations through the mid-2000s. Pick #40 superseded the earlier 2006 issue in security specification without a full redesign.