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10 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2018-2022 |
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| Reference(s) | P#24C |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the Mausoleum of Mir Sayid Ali Hamadoni located in Kūlob, rendered in a detailed architectural illustration set within a multicolour guilloche underprint. The National Flag of Tajikistan appears alongside the mausoleum, reinforcing the note's patriotic and cultural theme. Verses from Hamadoni's poetry are inscribed on the reverse in Tajik Cyrillic script, alongside a bilingual denomination legend and an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.