Catalog
5 Manat
| Issuer | National Bank of Azerbaijan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Second manat (1992-2006) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 AZƏRBAYCAN MİLLİ BANKI (Translation: National Bank of Azerbaijan) |
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| Reverse lettering | AZƏRBAYCAN MİLLİ BANKI BEŞ manat 5 (Translation: National Bank of Azerbaijan, Five Manat) |
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Azerbaijan's first post-Soviet banknote series, of which this is part, was commissioned from Thomas De La Rue almost immediately after independence — a practical choice, as the country lacked any domestic printing infrastructure. The manat itself replaced the Soviet ruble at a time when hyperinflation had already badly eroded public confidence in paper currency, and these early notes entered circulation into an economy still deeply destabilized by the ongoing war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The 1993 series was superseded relatively quickly. A redenomination in 2006 replaced 5,000 old manat with a single new manat, rendering the entire first-generation series obsolete.