Keyring "100 tenge"

Tenge is the unit of national currency of Kazakhstan, which symbolize nation-building, sovereignty and independence.

The word tenge in other Turkic languages means a set of scales(cf the old tenga or the borrowed term tanga), the name of the currency is related to the Russian word for money, which means being equal, balance and  Russian: деньги / den'gi.
After the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 Kazakhstan was still in the ruble zone and it was still the single currency for payment, and only on November 12, 1993, a decree of the President of Kazakhstan, "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan", was issued.
Currency code is KZT.
The first coins were minted in Germany, a tenge printing factory was opened in Kazakhstan in 1995, which prints money to the present days. Factory is also famous due the minting commemorative coins of gold, platina, silver for numismatic collection.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan bears responsibility for currency , which sets official exchange to the leading world currencies

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