Catalog
1000 Manat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 1000 Manat (1000 TMM) |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY ŞU BANKNOT TÖLEGLERIŇ ÄHLI GÖRNÜŞLERI ÜÇIN ÝÖREÝÄR BIR MÜŇ MANAT (Translation: Central Bank of Turkmenistan, This banknote is valid for all types of payments, One Thousand Manat) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Palace of Türkmenbaşy rendered in intaglio, with its distinctive gold dome rising above a colonnaded white facade. The double-headed eagle State Emblem appears at upper left, set against an elaborate guilloche background of interlocking geometric and floral motifs in green and teal. A broad decorative band of traditional Turkmen carpet ornaments runs along the lower margin, with the denomination tablet at upper right. |
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The 2005 1000 Manat belongs to the first generation of banknotes issued under Saparmurat Niyazov's personality cult at its most extreme — the period when state iconography had fully colonized public life, currency included. Giesecke & Devrient, who printed much of this series in Munich, worked to specifications dictated by a government that treated the notes as political instruments as much as monetary ones.
Niyazov died in December 2006. His successor, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, initiated a currency redenomination in 2009 — one new Manat to 5,000 old — that rendered this entire issue obsolete within four years of printing.