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1000 Tenge Kültegin
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 1000 Tenge |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the obverse bears the sculptural portrait of Kültegin (AD 684–731), prince and military commander of the Second Turkic Khaganate, based on the stone sculpture held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The design is set against a guilloche underprint with traditional Kazakh ornamental motifs framing the composition. Denomination numerals and Kazakh-language inscriptions of the National Bank of Kazakhstan appear in the surrounding lettering panels. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ МЫҢ ТЕҢГЕ (Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, National Bank of Kazakhstan, One Thousand Teñge) |
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The Kültegin note sits in a commemorative subset of Kazakhstan's paper series, issued to mark the Turkic runic inscription complex at Khöshöö Tsaidam in Mongolia — one of the oldest surviving written records of the Turkic language, dating to around 732 CE. Kültegin was a military commander of the Second Turkic Khaganate, and his monument predates Kazakhstan as a political entity by over a millennium, which makes the choice of subject deliberately cultural rather than strictly national.
Goznak's involvement is unremarkable for this series — Moscow has supplied Kazakhstan's banknote production across much of the post-independence period. The hologram strip is the most technically current security feature on what is otherwise a fairly conventional paper issue for its time.