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500 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Size | 162 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН 50 ПАНҶСАД СОМОНӢ (Translation: National Bank of Tajikistan, Five Hundred Somonī) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe, the official residence and workplace of the President of Tajikistan, set against a decorative guilloche background. The Presidential standard of Tajikistan and the National flag are incorporated into the design, accompanied by bilingual inscriptions in Cyrillic Tajik and Latin scripts. |
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Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig facility has printed currency for dozens of central banks, but Tajikistan's high-denomination Somoni series represents some of their more technically demanding work — the security feature package on this note was substantially upgraded from the earlier 1999–2000 issue that launched the Somoni as a replacement for the Tajik Ruble at a rate of 1,000 to 1.
The 500 Somoni was, at issue, worth roughly $115 USD — a significant sum in one of Central Asia's poorest economies, making it a note more commonly encountered in bank vaults than in daily commerce.