Catalog
50 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН 50 ПАНҶОҲ СОМОНӢ (Translation: National Bank of Tajikistan, Fifty Somonī) |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF TAJIKISTAN FIFTY SOMONİ БАРОИ ҚАЛБАКӢ СОХТАНИ БИЛЕТҲОИ БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН МУВОФИҚИ ҚОНУН ҶАЗО ДОДА МЕШОВАД (Translation: Counterfeit banknotes of the National Bank of Tajikistan shall be punished in accordance with the law) |
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Tajikistan's first dedicated banknote series — the somoni replaced the Tajikistani ruble in 2000, itself a transitional currency that had replaced Soviet rubles less than a decade earlier. The somoni was named for Ismoil Somoni, the 9th-century Samanid ruler claimed as a founding cultural figure by the newly independent state. Giesecke & Devrient had supplied currency printing to the post-Soviet region extensively through the 1990s, and their Munich facility handled much of Tajikistan's early sovereign output.
The security specification for this inaugural series was modest — thread and watermark only, with no optically variable elements — reflecting both budget constraints and the low per-capita circulation volumes expected at introduction.