Catalog
3 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a large stylised numeral '3' in bold relief, set within a decorative fourfold petal or rosette-shaped panel that fills the field. Above the numeral, a crown surmounted by an arc of seven five-pointed stars occupies the upper lobe of the rosette. The Cyrillic inscription СОМОНӢ (Somoni) appears beneath the numeral, with the date 2001 inscribed along the lower margin within the bottom lobe of the rosette. The mint mark of the St. Petersburg Mint (СПМД) appears in small characters to the lower right. |
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Tajikistan introduced the somoni in 2000 to replace the Tajik ruble, which had itself only existed since 1995 following the collapse of the Soviet ruble zone. The currency was named for Ismoil Somoni, the 9th-century Samanid ruler considered a founding figure of Tajik national identity — a pointed cultural statement from a country still rebuilding after a civil war that killed an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people between 1992 and 1997.
The 2001 date places this coin in the first full year of the somoni's circulation.