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50 000 Soʻm
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Second soʻm (1994-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | O'ZBEKISTON RESPUBLIKASI MARKAZIY BANKI OʻZBEKISTON SOʻMI RESPUBLIKA HUDUDIDA HAMMA TOʻLOVAR UCHUN OʻZ QIYMATI BOʻYICHA QABUL QILINISHI SHART 50000 ELLIK MING SOʻM (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan, The Uzbek so'm must be accepted at face value for all payments in the republic, Fifty Thousand So'm) |
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| Protection description | National Coat of Arms watermark; electrotype '50000' |
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Uzbekistan's som had been hemorrhaging zeros for years by the time this note appeared — the 50,000 denomination was a direct response to inflation that had made lower-value notes functionally useless for everyday transactions. Printed domestically by GPO Davlat Belgisi, the state security printer established in Tashkent in 1995, the series marked a deliberate shift away from the earlier reliance on foreign printers that characterized the som's first years of issue.
The 2017 high-denomination notes were quickly overtaken by the currency redenomination announced in September of that year, which introduced a new som at a 1:1,000 ratio. This 50,000-som note effectively became obsolete within months of release.