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5000 Manat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 5000 Manat (5000 TMM) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Saparmyrat Nyýazow (Türkmenbaşy) at centre-right, accompanied by the State Emblem of Turkmenistan at left, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. Issuer name and legal tender clause appear in Turkmen script above, with the denomination stated at lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 2005 series was issued during the final years of Saparmurat Niyazov's presidency — a period when Turkmenistan's currency denominations had ballooned dramatically following the hyperinflationary collapse of the early 1990s, making high-value notes like this one a practical necessity for ordinary transactions rather than a prestige denomination. Niyazov's government had rejected a redenomination until after his death in late 2006, so this note entered circulation knowing it would have a short lifespan.
De La Rue printed the series to relatively modest security specifications — watermark only, with no metallic thread. For a denomination of this face value at the time, that was a thin barrier against counterfeiting.