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100 Tenge BARYS
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 100 Tenge 100 KZT = RSD 20 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a seated snow leopard (barys), the national symbol of Kazakhstan, rendered in fine detail within the copper-nickel centre, facing left with its distinctive spotted coat clearly delineated against a lightly textured field. The inscription BARYS appears in the exergue of the inner disc. The nickel brass ring carries the legend QAZAQSTAN ULTTYQ BANKI arcing across the upper field in Latin script, with the denomination • 100 TEŃGE • arcing along the lower portion, each element separated by raised dot stops. |
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The Barys — the snow leopard — has served as a heraldic symbol in Kazakh state iconography since independence in 1991, appearing across official seals and the presidential standard. This 2025 circulation bimetallic continues a denomination series that Kazakhstan has used to rotate culturally significant motifs, a minting policy the National Bank formalized in the early 2000s as part of a broader effort to distinguish tenge coinage from Soviet-era design conventions still lingering in neighboring monetary systems.