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100 Somoni Presidential Palace, wide security thread
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Somoni (2000-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Abu Ibrohim Ismoili ibni Ahmad Somonī (849–907), founder of the Samanid state and emir of Transoxiana (892–907) and Khorasan (900–907), set against a guilloche underprint. The mausoleum and tomb of Ismoil Somonī in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, appears as an architectural vignette. Bank name and denomination inscriptions are rendered in Tajik Cyrillic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | КОХИ НАВУЗ NATIONAL BANK OF TAJIKISTAN ONE HUNDRED SOMONİ БАРОИ ҚАЛБАКӢ СОХТАНИ БИЛЕТҲОИ БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН МУВОФИҚИ ҚОНУН ҶАЗО ДОДА МЕШОВАД (Translation: Navruz Palace Counterfeit banknotes of the National Bank of Tajikistan shall be punished in accordance with the law) |
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Tajikistan's 100 Somoni note has gone through several incremental security upgrades since the denomination was first introduced, and this 2017 version is distinguished primarily by the adoption of a wider security thread — a straightforward technical revision rather than a full redesign. G+D's Leipzig facility has handled Tajik banknote production across multiple series, giving the output a consistent technical baseline.
The Somoni itself was introduced in 2000, replacing the transitional Tajik Ruble at a rate of 1:1000, a reform tied directly to the country's effort to stabilize after the civil war of the 1990s.