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10 Som
| Issuer | Kyrgyz Bank |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Reference(s) | P#9 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette is a portrait of Qasım Tınıstanov (1901–1938), scholar and first Minister of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic, rendered in intaglio. The denomination and issuer name appear in Cyrillic script, with decorative guilloche underprint framing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a two-register landscape view: the upper field shows a snow-capped mountain range in grey intaglio, while the lower field depicts the characteristic red-rock formations of the Jety-Ögüz tract in warm brown tones. A stylised yurt motif appears at centre-right, flanked by a large guilloche underprint numeral, with the denomination numeral "10" in ornate green at right and vertical lettering along the left border. |
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Kyrgyzstan introduced its national currency, the som, in May 1993 — a rapid exit from the Russian ruble zone driven by Moscow's increasingly chaotic monetary policy in the post-Soviet collapse. The 1994-dated notes represent the first full printing run after the initial emergency issue, produced as the National Bank moved to stabilize a currency that had already shed significant value against the dollar in its first year of existence.
Printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company, this series was funded in part through IMF technical assistance programs aimed at helping newly independent states establish functional monetary infrastructure.