National currency Day of Kazakhstan

Tenge symbolThe Kazakhstani tenge (Kazakhstan tengesi) is the national currency of Kazakhstan. On banknotes and coins, the designation tenge is adopted. (Kazakh. tenge). In November 2006, the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a competition for drawing the tenge symbol. Out of 30 thousand drawings submitted to the competition on March 30, 2007, a new tenge symbol was approved, the authors of which, Vadim Davidenko and Sanzhar Amerkhanov, received a prize of one million tenge (about 8000 dollars).

After the publication of the results of the competition, a scandal broke out, as it turned out that the new symbol is plagiarism - the symbol of the tenge is no different from the symbol of the Japanese postal service, which has been in use for more than 120 years.

The name "tenge" comes from medieval Turkic silver coins "denge" or "tanga", from which, in turn, the name of the Russian coin money and the word money.

On November 12, 1993, a decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the introduction of the national currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan” was issued.

On November 15, 1993, the tenge entered circulation. Since then, it is considered the official day of the national currency.