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20 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette, rendered in intaglio in reddish-brown tones against a guilloche ground, presents a traditional Kazakh eagle hunter (berkutchi) on a galloping horse with a large golden eagle perched on his outstretched arm, wings spread. To the right, a geometric panel in turquoise, orange, and gold carries traditional Kazakh carpet ornament motifs alongside the state emblem of Kazakhstan within a circular guilloche cartouche. The denomination numeral "20" appears in large figures at the left and within a scalloped guilloche rosette at the lower right, with the anti-counterfeiting warning in Kazakh Cyrillic along the upper right margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Kazakhstan's first banknote series, introduced in November 1993, replaced the Russian ruble overnight — the government gave citizens three days to exchange holdings, a hard cap deliberately set to limit the amount of ruble-denominated savings that could convert into the new currency. The 1993 series was rushed into circulation as part of that abrupt monetary transition, and Harrison & Sons handled the entire print run from London before Kazakhstan had established any domestic printing capacity.
The watermark is the sole security feature — thin protection, but consistent with what was feasible on the compressed production timeline Kazakhstan was working against.