Catalog
2 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2005-2006 |
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| Engraver(s) | V.Ivzhenko, F.Zolotukhin, M.Baitakov |
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| Reverse description | A large bold numeral '2' dominates the central field, rendered in a decorative serif style with ornate scrollwork flanking both sides. The Cyrillic denomination ТЕҢГЕ is inscribed in a straight legend below the numeral, centred near the lower rim. The design is simple and uncluttered, with the decorative foliate motifs lending an ornamental character to the otherwise plain field. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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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.