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200 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Printer | Harrison & Sons, London |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Al-Farabi (870–950), the renowned medieval Central Asian philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, positioned at centre-right against a background of traditional Kazakh geometric ornamental underprint. Inscriptions in Kazakh Cyrillic script identify the issuing authority and denomination, with the birth and death years of Al-Farabi incorporated into the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ ЕКІ ЖҮЗ 200 ТЕҢГЕ (Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, Two Hundred Tenge) |
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Kazakhstan's first national currency series, introduced after the country broke from the Soviet ruble zone in November 1993, was printed entirely abroad — Harrison & Sons had long experience producing notes for post-colonial and newly independent states, and Kazakhstan joined a long queue of former Soviet republics scrambling to establish independent monetary systems that year. The transition was swift and deliberately secretive; the new tenge was introduced over a single weekend to prevent capital flight and currency speculation.
Harrison's intaglio work on this series is competent but unremarkable by the firm's standards. The 1993 issues were replaced relatively quickly as Kazakhstan's central bank moved toward domestically produced notes in subsequent years.