Catalog
2000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Size | 144 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a portrait of Äl-Färäbi (870–950), the renowned Central Asian philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, rendered against a background of ornamental national patterns in the underprint. The denomination 2000 is printed in numerals to the right, alongside intaglio lettering in Kazakh identifying the issuing authority. The date 1996 appears at lower left, with the subject's name and life dates inscribed beneath the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | БАНКНОТТАРДЫ ҚОЛДАН ЖАСАУ ЗАҢМЕН ҚУДАЛАНАДЫ ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ ЕКІ МЫҢ 2000 ТЕҢГЕ ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ 1996 ӘЛ - ФАРАБИ - 870 – 950ж (Translation: Counterfeiting banknotes is punished by law, National Bank of Kazakhstan, Two Thousand Tenge, National Bank of Kazakhstan, Äl-Färäbi - year 870-950) |
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Kazakhstan established its own banknote printing facility in Almaty in 1997, making this note one of the earlier products of that domestic operation — a deliberate move away from reliance on foreign security printers following independence. The 2000 tenge denomination was introduced as part of a 1999–2000 series refresh that followed the country's painful currency crisis of 1999, when the tenge was floated and lost roughly a third of its value against the dollar almost overnight.
Security specification on this issue is relatively modest for the period — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable devices that would appear on later Kazakhstani high-denomination issues.