Catalog
10 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2018-2022 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF TAJIKISTAN TEN SOMONİ Ҳар кӣ моро ёд кард, эзид мар-ӯро ёр бод, Ҳар кӣ моро хор кард, аз умр бархурдор бод. Ҳар кӣ андар роҳи мо хоре фиканд аз душанӣ, Ҳар гуле, к-аз боғи васлаш бишкуфад бехор бод. Дар ду олам нест моро бо касе гарди ғубор, Ҳар кӣ моро ранҷа дорад, роҳаташ бисёр бод. БАРОИ ҚАЛБАКӢ СОХТАНИ БИЛЕТҲОИ БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН МУВОФИҚИ ҚОНУН ҶАЗО ДОДА МЕШОВАД (Translation: Whoever remembers us, let him help us. Whoever humiliates us, let him enjoy life. Whoever throws thorns in our path out of enmity, let every flower blooming from the garden of his union be without thorns. In two worlds we have no quarrel with anyone; whoever causes us pain, may his own comfort be plentiful. Counterfeit banknotes of the National Bank of Tajikistan shall be punished in accordance with the law) |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Mir Sayid Ali Hamadoni |
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Tajikistan's somoni series replaced the transitional Tajik ruble in 2000, the ruble itself having been a stopgap after the Soviet collapse left the country without a functional currency during a civil war that killed an estimated 50,000 people. The 10 somoni denomination is named, as is the entire currency, after Ismoil Somoni — the Samanid ruler who presided over a Persian cultural revival in the ninth and tenth centuries, a pointed choice for a government asserting pre-Soviet national identity.
P#24C is a later signature variety within the ongoing series, the earlier printings having appeared from 1999 onward. Watermark-only security on a note this recent reflects Tajikistan's relatively constrained central bank budget for currency infrastructure.