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2 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2005-2006 |
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| Weight | 1.84 g |
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| Obverse description | The National Coat of Arms of Kazakhstan occupies the central field, depicting two mythical winged horses (tulpars) flanking a radiant sun with a shanyrak (the crown of a yurt) at its centre, above a ribbon cartouche inscribed КАЗАҚСТАН. A single five-pointed star appears above the coat of arms in the upper field. The circular legend ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ runs along the upper periphery in Cyrillic characters, with the date flanked by two raised dots positioned along the lower rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | • ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ • 2005 (Translation: 2 Tenge) |
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Kazakhstan's tenge system was introduced in November 1993, replacing the Soviet ruble after independence and giving the country its first sovereign currency. The 2 tenge denomination sat at the lowest practical end of daily transactions during a period when the National Bank was still calibrating denominations against persistent post-Soviet inflation. By the mid-2000s, these small-value coins were already becoming economically marginal — prices had risen far enough that 2 tenge bought almost nothing in circulation.