100 Som - 1994 - P79 - B209a - Unc

SCWPM.#79 - TBB.#209a - Date: 1994
Grade: Unc. - No signature. - Prefix: BK or LQ
Description: Colour: Purple and light blue.
Front: Uzbek text; peacocks; Scythian torque; coat of arms.
Back: Uzbek text; Palace of Friendship of Peoples building in Tashkent.
Solid security thread with demetalized ЎЗБЕКИСТОН.
Watermark: Coat of arms. - Printer: (Uzbekistan).
Size: 144 x 68 mm. - Material: Paper
General information: 1994 Issues
On 1 July 1994, a second som was introduced at a rate of 1 new som = 1,000 old som.
These notes are produced locally by a government printing plant in Tashkent, using equipment supplied by Harrison & Sons, which explains the contradiction between the Cyrillic text on the notes and the Latin text used for the serial number prefixes.
Source: The banknotebook.
Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia. Its capital and largest city is Tashkent. There are about 34,8 million people living in Uzbekistan, now. The neighbouring countries are Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. It is a doubly landlocked country, of which there are only two in the world. Most people in Uzbekistan speak a language called Uzbek, a Turkic language similar to Uyghur and Turkish. In the Uzbek language, Uzbekistan is called "O‘zbekiston" and it means "the land of the true nobles". Uzbekistan has a long history. Humans first lived in Uzbekistan from before the 2nd millennium BC. The current president today is Shavkat Mirziyoyev.