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10 000 Tenge Independence
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 10 000 Tenge |
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| Obverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ 10000 ОН МЫҢ ТЕҢГЕ (Translation: National Bank of Kazakhstan, Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, Ten Thousand Teñge) |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on the Presidential residence Aq Orda in Nur-Sultan, rendered in a detailed architectural vignette set within a complex guilloche background in blue and green hues. The building is framed by ornamental Kazakh geometric patterns and underprint elements evoking the capital's skyline. |
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Issued to mark the twentieth anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence, this note was among the first in the region to use a hybrid substrate — a polymer-paper composite rather than pure cotton or full polymer — at the time still an uncommon choice for a commemorative issue of this denomination. The decision reflected deliberate hedging: polymer's durability against the tactile familiarity that Central Asian cash-handlers expected from banknotes.
The 10,000 Tenge had been Kazakhstan's highest denomination since 2003, so issuing a commemorative at that value rather than a new face amount kept the series coherent without requiring a redenomination.