Central Bank of Turkmenistan 10000 manat note with a portrait of President Niyazov, 1996
Obverse of a 10000-manat note of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan. The right half is a three-quarter portrait of President Saparmurat Niyazov in a suit and tie; the centre shows a domed building with a small label beneath it; the field is in blue, olive and brown guilloche patterns. Everyday money carries the president's face, attaching his authority to an object every user handles, as other currencies in the collection do for other rulers.
- Date
- 1996
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Central Bank of Turkmenistan (state)
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Medium
- Banknotes and coins
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Saparmurat Niyazov
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Saparmurat Niyazov
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan credited to the Central Bank of Turkmenistan), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD-TK-exempt: banknotes excluded from copyright, Turkmen law 2012)
Central Bank of Turkmenistan, via Wikimedia Commons (scan).
Text on the object
TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY 10000 ON MÜŇ MANAT [small print and building label: not fully legible]
Central Bank of Turkmenistan 10000 Ten thousand manat [small print and building label: not fully legible]
Read from a 1280 px copy. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
