Catalog
10 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2013-2017 |
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| Size | 147 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | At centre-left, a vignette portrait of the Tajik Sufi mystic, thinker and poet Mir Sayid Ali Hamadoni (1314–1384) is rendered in intaglio, accompanied by a writing ink tray and paper as symbolic attributes of scholarship. The underprint carries guilloche patterning in the note's predominant colour, with the denomination and issuing bank name inscribed in Tajik Cyrillic script. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the Mausoleum of Mir Sayid Ali Hamadoni situated in Kūlob, rendered in fine line engraving against a decorative guilloche underprint. The national flag of Tajikistan appears alongside the architectural motif, with verses from Hamadoni's poetry and statutory anti-counterfeiting text inscribed in Tajik Cyrillic across the field. |
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Tajikistan adopted the somoni in 2000, replacing the Tajik ruble at a rate of 1000 to 1 — a straightforward redenomination following a decade of catastrophic inflation rooted in the civil war of 1992–1997. The somoni itself was named after Ismoil Somoni, the 9th-century Samanid ruler whose symbolic importance to Tajik national identity was deliberately invoked during a period when the newly independent state was still consolidating legitimacy.
The P#24A designation indicates a design revision from the earlier P#24 issue; differences between iterations in this series are typically confined to security feature updates rather than substantive redesign. Tajik banknotes of this period were printed by Giesecke & Devrient of Germany.