Catalog
10 000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the national emblem of Kazakhstan at upper left, accompanied by a detailed vignette of a snow leopard and gold ornamental patterning. At centre, a stylised "Tree of Life" motif derived from the sacred branch with hovering bird device found on the headdress of the 3rd–4th century BCE "Golden Man" from the Issyk kurgan burial mound is rendered in fine guilloche-style underprint. A DNA double-helix spiral element is integrated into the compositional design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ 10000 ОН МЫҢ ТЕҢГЕ (Translation: National Bank of Kazakhstan, Ten Thousand Teñge) |
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Kazakhstan's Banknote Factory in Almaty — established in 1997, making it one of the younger sovereign currency printers in Central Asia — produced this note on Durasafe, a hybrid substrate developed by Louisenthal that bonds a polymer core between two outer layers of paper. The format gives issuers the durability advantages of polymer without abandoning the tactile properties that cash-handling infrastructure and the public tend to expect from paper currency.
The 10,000 tenge has been Kazakhstan's highest circulating denomination for some years, and successive redesigns have tracked the country's ongoing investment in domestic printing capability rather than outsourcing to De La Rue or similar international houses.