20 000 Tenge

Kazakhstan prints its own currency at the Almaty facility established in 1997 — one of relatively few Central Asian states to have developed fully domestic banknote production rather than contracting to De La Rue or a comparable European firm. The hybrid substrate, combining paper with a polymer window or polymer layers, reflects a broader post-2010 trend among national printers seeking to add security features without committing to full polymer runs.

TBB#152 is recent enough that secondary market data on varieties, errors, or replacement notes remains sparse.