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100 Manat

Issuer National Bank of Azerbaijan
Year 1993-1999
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Obverse lettering 100 AZƏRBAYCAN MİLLİ BANKI
(Translation: National Bank of Azerbaijan)
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Reverse lettering AZƏRBAYCAN MİLLİ BANKI YÜZ manat
(Translation: National Bank of Azerbaijan, One Hundred Manat)
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Azerbaijan's first manat series launched in 1992–93 as the country exited the ruble zone, and this note belongs to the transitional period when the National Bank was issuing currency for a state barely a year old and simultaneously managing an active armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Hyperinflation eroded purchasing power so severely across the mid-1990s that the 100 manat, nominally a mid-range denomination at issue, had become effectively worthless in daily transactions well before the series was retired.

The 1999 replacement by a revalued manat series rendered most circulating stock obsolete almost overnight. Notes that survived were largely low-grade, heavily used examples — clean surviving specimens are somewhat harder to find than the common catalog status suggests.

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