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100.000 So'm
| Issuer | O'zbekiston Respublikasi Markaziy Banki |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 100.000 So'm |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio vignette portrays the medieval scholar and astronomer Mirzo Ulugbek seated, rendered against a multicoloured guilloche underprint in blue and violet tones. The central decorative field carries a stylised celestial orrery motif with orbiting spheres and a compass-star element, while the large denomination numeral 100000 appears at lower right. The issuer inscription O'ZBEKISTON RESPUBLIKASI MARKAZIY BANKI runs across the upper register, with BIR YUZ MING SO'M in bold lettering along the lower centre. |
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| Protection description | Embedded windowed security thread with microtext; Mirzo Ulugbek portrait watermark and denomination numeral visible when held to light; colour-shifting globe emblem on reverse changing between red and gold tones. |
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The 100,000 so'm note was Uzbekistan's highest denomination at issue — a practical response to inflation that had steadily eroded the purchasing power of lower values since the so'm's introduction in 1994. For years, everyday transactions required unwieldy stacks of 1,000 and 5,000 notes; the 2019 high-value series was a belated but necessary rationalization of the currency in circulation.
Colour-shifting ink on a note of this vintage from a Central Asian issuer is worth noting — such security features had previously appeared only on Uzbek commemorative or limited series, making this a meaningful upgrade in anti-counterfeiting specification for general circulation paper.