Catalog
100 Roubles
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles (100 TJR) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette portrays the parliament building of Tajikistan, rendered in brown intaglio with the national flag flying above its roofline. To the right, the denomination numeral '100' and the inscription 'СД РУБЛ' appear within a dark ornate cartouche encircled by a fine guilloche border, set against a multicolour underprint. A secondary guilloche panel at the lower left repeats the numeral '100', while the serial number prefix and digits are printed in black below the main cartouche. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Tajikistan continued using Russian roubles after independence in 1991, but the rouble zone's collapse forced the country to issue its own transitional currency in 1994 — these notes denominated in roubles rather than the somoni that would follow years later. The timing was awkward: the civil war was still grinding on, and monetary infrastructure was essentially improvised under wartime conditions.
The watermark is the sole security feature, a thin line of defense that reflected both the urgency and the limited production resources available to the new state.