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100 Tenge

Issuer National Bank of Kazakhstan
Year 1993-2001
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Currency Tenge (1993-date)
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Reverse description Central vignette presents an architectural view of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166), the revered Turkic poet and Sufi mystic whose spiritual legacy shaped Sufi orders across the Turkic-speaking world, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral 100 appears in the lower field alongside the Kazakh Cyrillic anti-counterfeiting inscription. Traditional ornamental border elements complete the design.
Reverse lettering БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ 100 ЖҮЗ ТЕҢГЕ
(Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, One Hundred Tenge)
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Kazakhstan's first national currency series launched in November 1993, when the tenge replaced the Soviet ruble at a rate of 1 tenge to 500 rubles — a conversion designed to break the country's monetary dependence on Moscow and the ruble zone it had reluctantly remained in for two years after independence. The introduction was deliberately secretive; Kazakhstani authorities coordinated with the IMF but kept the switchover date confidential until days before implementation to prevent capital flight and speculative hoarding of rubles.

The series was printed by Harrison and Sons of England. Pick 13 carries only a watermark as its primary security feature, a relatively modest specification that the later revised issues of the same series would quietly improve upon.