2022-04-05 Tue

The IBNS 'Bank Note of the Year is awarded to a banknote issued during the preceding year and it is judged on artistic merit, design, and security features. The winning entry of 2012, for notes issued during 2011, is a 5,000 Tenge denomination Kazakhstani note.

The 2012 winning banknote was designed collaboratively by De La Rue of England and the National Bank. This is the second consecutive year that Kazakhstani note had received this honor. The note was issued on 30 December 2011 for circulation in 2012.

The stunning design, predominantly in vivid reddish-orange features the “Kazak Eli” monument with flying doves and panthers in a vertical format on the face of the banknote. The horizontal format reverse side highlights a map of the country with mountains and the “Monument of Independence” with the Kazakhstan Hotel in the former capital city of Almaty.

Image Courtesy: theibns.org