Catalog
5 Manat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic |
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| Year | 2009-2017 |
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| Engraver(s) | Robert Kalina |
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| Obverse description | At right, a vignette of the Maiden Tower (Qız Qalası), the iconic medieval stone tower located in the Old City of Baku, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '5' appears at upper left, with Azerbaijani text and issuer inscriptions framing the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ONE HUNDRED TAKA BANGLADESH BANK |
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Robert Kalina is best known as the designer of the euro banknotes — his selection by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan to design this series was a deliberate choice, not a routine tender. The same hand that produced the abstract architectural motifs for the eurozone produced the artwork here, though working within an entirely different symbolic vocabulary.
OeBS in Vienna has printed currency for dozens of issuing authorities outside Europe, and Azerbaijan has been a consistent client across multiple series. The P#32 watermark-only security specification is notably lean for a note of this period, when multi-feature security packages had become routine.