{"id":51570,"date":"2026-10-30T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=51570"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:32:30","slug":"kyrgyzstan-new-20-som-note-b235a-confirmed-introduced-on-15-02-2024-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=51570","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan new 20-som note (B242a) reported introduced on 27.10.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbkr.kg\/newsout.jsp?item=31&amp;lang=RUS&amp;material=134698\">These 20- and 50-som notes are the first banknotes manufactured in Kyrgyzstan<\/a>, produced by the Central Asian Security Printing House, a private facility in Bishkek. These notes are like the preceding issues, but with enhanced security features and large white spaces to make the watermarks more visible.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1416\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_f.jpg 1416w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_f-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_f-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_f-465x220.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_f-695x329.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1416px) 100vw, 1416px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1415\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_r.jpg 1415w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_r-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_r-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_r-465x226.jpg 465w, https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kyrgyzstan_KB_20_com_2026.00.00_B242as_PNLs_AB_1234567_digital_r-695x337.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1415px) 100vw, 1415px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B242<\/strong> (PNL): <strong>20 \u0441\u043e\u043c (som)<\/strong> (US$0.25)<br>Red. Front: Kyrgyz text; writer, poet, and educator Togolok Moldo; rhombus as registration device. Back: Kyrgyz text; rhombus as registration device; Tash-Rabat; mountains. Purple windowed security thread with demetalized rhombus and <em>20<\/em>. Watermark: Togolok Moldo with electrotype <em>20<\/em>. Printer: (Central Asian Security Printing House). 120 x 58 mm. Paper.<br>a. 2026. Sig. 6: Bokontayev. Prefix AB. Intro: 27.10.2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?page_id=18936\">300-dpi scans requested<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy of Vladimir Buravlev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These 20- and 50-som notes are the first banknotes manufactured in Kyrgyzstan, produced by the Central Asian Security Printing House, a private facility in Bishkek. These notes are like the preceding issues, but with enhanced security features and large white spaces to make the watermarks more visible. B242 (PNL): 20<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=51570\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,337],"tags":[128],"class_list":["entry","author-owenink","post-51570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-asia","category-new-note","tag-kyrgyzstan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51573,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51570\/revisions\/51573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}