Catalog
5000 Tenge
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Value | 5000 Tenge (5000 KZT) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Äl-Fārābī (870–950), the medieval Central Asian polymath, philosopher, mathematician and theorist, set against an ornamental background of traditional Kazakh geometric patterns. The denomination BES MYŅ / 5000 TEŃGE appears in bold letterpress, with the issuer inscription ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛTTЫҚ БАНКІ and the subject identification ӘЛ-ФАРАБИ – 870–950ж incorporated into the design. Guilloche underprint elements frame the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Architectural vignette of the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166), the revered Turkic poet and Sufi mystic whose spiritual legacy shaped Sufi orders across the Turkic-speaking world, rendered in detailed intaglio. The monumental structure is set within a decorative border incorporating traditional Kazakh ornamental motifs. The denomination 5000 / ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ ТЕНГЕ is inscribed in Cyrillic script alongside the anti-counterfeiting legend. |
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Kazakhstan's domestic banknote printing facility in Almaty — established in 1997, just six years after independence — was still a young operation when this note was produced. Printing the 5000 Tenge in-house rather than contracting a European security printer was a deliberate policy choice, and by 2001 the factory had accumulated enough experience to handle the highest denomination then in circulation.
The security package is modest by contemporary central bank standards: a watermark and embedded thread, without the foil patches or color-shifting inks that would appear on later Kazakh issues.