B240 (PNL): 1,000 com (som) (US$14) Gray-green. Front: Kyrgyz text; ornament with denomination in gold-to-jade OVI; poet Jusup Balasagyn; mountains; diamond pattern as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; diamond pattern; Takhti Sulaiman, ancient architectural monument; Sulaiman Mountain. Windowed security thread with demetalized 1000 com. Watermark: Jusup Balasagyn with electrotype 1000.Read More…
B239 (PNL): 500 com (som) (US$7.15) Violet. Front: Kyrgyz text; ornament with denomination in gold-to-jade OVI; “Manas” storyteller Sayakbai Karalaev; mountains; diamond pattern as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; diamond pattern; Mausoleum of Manas; mountains. Windowed security thread with demetalized 500 com. Watermark: Sayakbai Karalaev with electrotype 500. Printer: (DeRead More…
B238 (PNL): 200 com (som) (US$2.85) Yellow. Front: Kyrgyz text; ornament with denomination in gold-to-jade OVI; poet and playwright Alykul Osmonov; forested mountains; diamond pattern as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; diamond pattern; lines from Osmonov’s “Jenishbek” about Lake Issyk-Kul; mountains. Windowed security thread with demetalized 200 com. Watermark: AlykulRead More…
Like B220, but new security features. Courtesy of Albert Vokhmin.Read More…
Like B226, but new security features. Courtesy of Claudio Marana.Read More…
According to a press release, Kyrgyzstan has introduced new 20- and 5,000-com notes (B227 and B233) on 20 December 2018. Courtesy of Vladimir Buravlev.Read More…
According to a 21 February 2018 press release, the organizers of High Security Printing EMEA, Reconnaissance, revealed the 2018 winners of the Regional Banknote of the Year during the gala dinner at the conference in Warsaw, Poland. Read More…
This note commemorates the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the national currency, the Kyrgyzstan com. The original design reflects the history of the formation of Kyrgyz statehood: from ancient times to the present day. Courtesy of Vladimir Buravlev, Arsentiy Khonin, and Hartmut Fraunhoffer (Banknote-Online).Read More…
According to a press release dated 1 March 2017, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic has introduced 50- and 100-com notes like the preceding issues, but with modified portraits, new signature, and new date (2016). Courtesy of Vladimir Buravlev and Vadim Tislenko.Read More…
The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic introduced new banknotes on 1 January 2017. These notes are like the preceding issues, but with revised portraits at left front, round ornament at center front that reveals hidden image of COM when viewed with backlighting (TDLR’s Mask security feature), and the yearRead More…