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50 Manat Neutrality
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Size | 144 × 72 mm |
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| Reverse description | Architectural vignette of the Türkmenistanyň Mejlisi (National Assembly building) in Aşgabat at center, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche underprint; the Monument to the Constitution of Turkmenistan appears alongside the legislative building within a formal compositional arrangement. Decorative geometric borders in the national style frame the design, with the denomination and issuer inscriptions distributed across the upper and lower registers. |
| Reverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY XXI ASYR – TÜRKMENIŇ ALTYN ASYRY ELLI MANAT (Translation: Central Bank of Turkmenistan, The 21st century is the golden age of the Turkmen, Fifty Manat) |
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Turkmenistan's 2020 banknote series was issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the country's permanent neutrality status, recognised by the United Nations in 1995 — an unusual political occasion for a currency redesign, and one that reflects the Turkmen government's habit of using banknotes as instruments of national narrative. The neutrality theme was not incidental; it was the explicit brief for the entire series.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is standard for Central Asian issuers seeking credibility through a recognised security printer, and the feature package — holographic strip, colour-shifting ink — is consistent with De La Rue's mid-tier sovereign contracts of this period.