Note and Coin News

Kyrgyzstan Completes New Series

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) has issued the new 5,000 som banknote, the seventh and last banknote of the fifth series, completing the modernisation that started in May 2023. The new series includes denominations ranging from 20 to 5,000 som – all featuring RAPID HD® Detect from Crane Currency.

The banknote design was created by the Bank in collaboration with Crane Currency and Oberthur Fiduciaire. The front features a portrait of Kyrgyz actor and artist S Chokmorov and the reverse side shows the Ala-Too cinema in Bishkek.

Other security features include a multi-tonal watermark of the portrait along with an electrotype of the denomination numeral, a see through images, intaglio ink, a latent image, a gold-to-jade SPARK® Live patch which include three-dimensional concentric rings and, on the reverse, an iridescent stripe featuring the diamond-shaped logo of the NBKR and the denomination.