Catalog
50 Tyin
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 ТИЫН ҚҰБ 1993 (Translation: 50 Tiyn 1993 NBK) |
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Kazakhstan declared independence in December 1991, but the new republic continued using Soviet rubles for nearly two years while its monetary infrastructure was built from scratch. The tyin — subdivisions of the newly created tenge — was introduced in November 1993 alongside the tenge itself, replacing the ruble in a rapid, tightly controlled currency swap that gave citizens just three days to exchange their holdings.
The brass composition was a practical choice for a state that had just inherited Soviet-era minting capacity and needed to produce an entirely new coinage series quickly and cheaply.