5 Somoni 2013, Tajikistan
| in Krause book | Number: 23 |
| Years of issue: | 2013 |
| Edition: | |
| Signatures: | President of Tajikistan: Эмомали Раҳмон, Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Tajikistan: Муродалӣ Маҳмадиевич Алимардон |
| Serie: | 2000 Issue |
| Specimen of: | 1999 |
| Material: | Cotton fiber |
| Size (mm): | 144 x 65 |
| Printer: | Giesecke und Devrient GmbH, Leipzig |
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Description
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Sadriddin Aynī. Please, read obverse description!
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Sadriddin Ayni[a] (Tajik: Садриддин Айнӣ, Persian: صدرالدين عينى, Russian: Садриддин Саидмуродович Саидмуродов; 15 April 1878 – 15 July 1954) was a Tajik intellectual who wrote poetry, fiction, journalism, history, and a dictionary. He is regarded as Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers in the country's history.
Ayni was born into a peasant family in the village of Soktare in what was then the Emirate of Bukhara. He became an orphan at 12 and moved to join his older brother in Bukhara, where he attended a madrasa and learned to write in Arabic.
In the early 1920s, Ayni helped to propagate the Russian Revolution in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In 1934, he attended the Soviet Congress of Writers as the Tajik representative. By purporting national identity in his writings, he was able to escape the Soviet censors that quieted many intellectuals in Central Asia. Ayni survived the Soviet Purges, and even outlived Stalin by one year. He was member of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan for 20 years, was awarded the Order of Lenin three times, and was the first president of the Academy of Sciences of Tajik SSR. After 1992, his writing helped to bind together a sense of Tajik nationalism that survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Ayni gave indigenous Tajik literature in Tajikistan a boost in 1927 by writing Dokhunda, the first Tajikistani novel in the Tajik language. In 1934 and 1935, leading Russian director Lev Kuleshov worked for two years in Tajikistan at a movie based on Dokhunda but the project was regarded with suspicion by the authorities as possibly exciting Tajik nationalism, and stopped. No footage survives. Ayni's four-volume Yoddoshtho (Memoirs), completed 1949-54 are famous and widely read. In 1956, Tajik director Boris (Besion) Kimyagarov (1920-1979) was finally able to get approval for a movie version of Dokhunda.
Ayni's early poems were about love and nature, but after the national awakening in Tajikistan, his subject matter shifted to the dawn of the new age and the working class. His writings often criticized the Amir of Bukhara. Two well-known are The Slave and The Bukhara Executioners.
Ayni died in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where a mausoleum stands in his honor. 
The emblem of the National Bank of Tajikistan is in top right corner.
The emblem of the National Bank of Tajikistan shows three snow-capped ridges - Alai, Zaalaysky Mountains and the Pamirs (same as on the coat of arms).
The State Emblem of Tajikistan is on top, left of center.
It is a modified version of the original emblem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic that was in use until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The crown at the center of the emblem is the same as the Tajik national flag, and refers to the Persian word taj, meaning crown, from which the name of the Tajik people is said to be derived, according to one interpretation. The base of the emblem contains a representation of a book and the Pamir Mountains. The emblem is flanked by cotton on one side and wheat on the other, as well a banner of the national red-white-green colors of Tajikistan is wrapped around the cotton and wheat.
According to M.Revnivtsev, the "crown", depicted in the center of the national flag and coat of arms in the upper part of Tajikistan, includes three stylized fixtures - three sacred inextinguishable fire that are the subject of religious worship in the Zoroastrian temples. A central element of "crown" symbolizes the world mountain Hara, located in the center of the world, and the curved arc of gold at the bottom of the emblem represents "retaliation bridge" Chinvat, where the Day of Judgment Zarathustra will separate the righteous from the wicked soul.
Seven gold five-pointed stars, according M.Revnivtsev, represent one of the basic concepts of Zoroastrianism - the seven good spirits Amesha Spenta - incarnation and inner circle of the supreme god Ahura Mazda (Ormuzd). Located along the arc of a circle of gold stars form Farn - sun shining beginning, the divine fire, its material emanation from analogue halo of Christian saints.
21 sunbeam - repeated three times in the group at 7-rays - represent the three emanations of Ahura Mazda with 7 good spirits Amesha Spenta.
Golden Mountains with silver tops - snow-capped ridges Alai, Zaalaysky Mountains and the Pamirs.
Wheat ears - a symbol of agriculture and settled life, inherited, like the rising sun, the emblem of the Soviet Union.
Although, left of center is the line with Tajik national ornament (pattern).
Centered are the table, ink tray and paper.
Revers:
The Rudaki Mausoleum is located on the territory of the Panjrud village, about 60 km. east of the city of Penjikent and is one of the most famous landmarks in Tajikistan. The mausoleum was built for the founder of Persian-Tajik literature - Abu Abdullo Rudaki, who, according to historical data, lived at the end of the 9th - beginning of the 10th centuries, during the reign of the Samanid dynasty. Rudaki was not only a great poet and writer, but also a talented singer and musician. The founder of classical Tajik poetry wrote his famous works in the Dari language using the Arabic alphabet. The mausoleum of the great poet was erected in 1958.
In 1940, two famous archaeologists conducted a scientific and historical study and established the exact location of the burial of the great poet. After 15 years, with the participation of anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov, the remains were discovered. Based on them and on the objects located at the burial site, it was possible to make an accurate identification, which confirmed that Rudaki was buried here.
On October 17, 1958, the grand opening of the mausoleum took place on the site where the remains of the great poet were discovered. In 2008, the mausoleum was reconstructed, as a result of which its external and internal appearance changed greatly.
The mausoleum building is built of red brick, the dome is decorated with blue tiles, which corresponded to the architecture of ancient Central Asian buildings. The entrance is opened by a brick arch with a massive wooden gate. A marble sarcophagus is installed in the center of the mausoleum.
An outstanding poet, who made a great contribution not only to Tajik poetry, but also to the entire Eastern culture, spent the last days of his life in poverty and died in 941. Today, Rudaki’s sculpture is one of the main decorations of the city of Dushanbe. (tourstotajikistan.com rus.)
To the right of the mausoleum, under the denomination number, a shoinak is depicted, an element of the national women's costume, a bib with embroidery, Darvaz region, Mountainous Tajikistan.
Above the building is the flag of Tajikistan.
The national flag of Tajikistan (Tajik: Парчами Тоҷикистон / پرچم تاجیکستان) was adopted in November 1992, replacing the flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic of 1953. It is a horizontal tricolour of red, white and green with a width ratio of 2:3:2, charged with a crown surmounted by an arc of seven stars at the center.
The tricolour preserves the choice of colours in the Tajik Soviet flag.
The middle white stripe has one-and-a-half times the width of the red and green stripes. The red represents the unity of the nation; the green represents the fertile valleys, while the white represents both the snow and ice of the mountains and the colour of cotton.
The crown and stars are set in a rectangle taking up 80% of the flag's total width. The crown represents the Tajik people, as the name Tajik is connected with Persian tâj "crown" in popular etymology.
In lower right corner is a text: "БАРОИ ҚАЛБАКӢ СОХТАНИ БИЛЕТҲОИ БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН МУВОФИҚИ ҚОНУН ҶАЗО ДОДА МЕШОВАД".
In English:" Counterfeit banknotes of the National Bank of Tajikistan shall be punished in accordance with the law."
Comments:
The somoni (Tajik: cомонӣ) is the currency of Tajikistan. It is subdivided into 100 diram (Tajik: дирам). The currency is named after the father of the Tajik nation, Ismail Samani (also spelled Ismoil Somoni).
The somoni was introduced on 30 October 2000; it replaced the Tajikistani ruble, at the rate of 1 somoni = 1000 rubles.
The currency is divided into 100 diram for one somoni. Diram banknotes were first introduced on 30 October 2000 to start the currency off and coins were introduced later in 2001 with the intention of creating a more efficient monetary system and gradually replacing the diram notes. This was also the first time circulating coins were introduced in Tajikistan.
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