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100 Tenge Latin
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2019-2023 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1993-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded with lettering |
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Kazakhstan's 2019 monetary reform replaced Cyrillic script on circulating coinage with Latin characters, part of a broader state-mandated alphabet transition announced by President Nazarbayev in 2017. The shift was politically charged — moving away from the Russian-influenced Cyrillic system toward a Latin script seen as aligning Kazakhstan culturally with Turkic-speaking nations and, implicitly, with Western orientation. The coin itself is a direct artifact of that policy, not a redesign driven by any numismatic consideration.
The Latin transition proved contentious enough that implementation deadlines were repeatedly pushed back through the early 2020s.