Catalog
10 000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2012-2020 |
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| Value | 10 000 Tenge |
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| Obverse description | The Qazaq Eli monument in Nur-Sultan dominates the right portion of the note, rising above a panoramic vignette of the city skyline with a modern glass-and-steel structure in the background. Three peace doves in intaglio — one rendered in gold and decorative Kazakh ornamental patterns, two in blue — occupy the lower centre and left fields. The Kazakh state emblem appears at upper left alongside the national flag at upper right, set against a lavender and blue guilloche underprint incorporating traditional Kazakh geometric motifs. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Hologram |
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Kazakhstan's 10,000 Tenge note entered circulation as the highest denomination in the series during a period when the tenge was under sustained pressure from falling oil revenues — the country's fiscal position being tightly coupled to Brent crude. The 2015 devaluation, which saw the tenge lose roughly 35% of its value against the dollar almost overnight after the central bank abandoned its managed float, significantly eroded the real purchasing power this denomination once represented.
Printed on cotton substrate by Kazakhstani security printers, the note belongs to a series that ran across nearly a decade with only minor security updates between printings.