Catalog
500 Manat
| Issuer | Central State Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 1993-1995 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2010 |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYÑ MERKEZI DÖWLET BANKY BU BANKNOT TÖLEGLERIÑ ÄHLI GÖRNÜŞLERI ÜÇIN KÖREKÖÄR BAŞ ÝÜZ MANAT (Translation: Central State Bank of Turkmenistan, This banknote is valid for all types of payments, Five Hundred Manat) |
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| Reverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYÑ MERKEZI DÖWLET BANKY TÜRKMENISTANYÑ MERKEZI DÖWLET BANKNYÑ BANKNOTLARYNY GALP YOL BILEN YASAMAK KANUN BOÝUNÇA YZARLANYLÝAR BAS YUZ MANAT TOREBEG HANYMYN YADYGARLIGI (Translation: Central State Bank of Turkmenistan, All forgeries of the banknotes of the Central State Bank of Turkmenistan are punishable by law, Five Hundred Manat, Törebeg Hanymyñ Monument) |
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Turkmenistan's first banknote series appeared almost immediately after independence from the Soviet Union, with the manat introduced in November 1993 to replace the Russian ruble. The Central State Bank — not yet restructured into the later Central Bank of Turkmenistan — issued this high denomination during a period of severe inflation that made large-value notes necessary almost from the start.
The watermark remains the sole security feature, a notably thin specification for a note of this face value, reflecting both the urgency of the issue and the limited facilities available to a newly sovereign state contracting foreign printing expertise under tight timelines.