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After my most recent adventure with new Kazakh tenge notes, I wondered what had happened about those misspelled bills. As you will recall, when they introduced the new currency x years ago, the first bills were released with a spelling error. In Kazakh the word for bank is bank but these bills had bankhi written on them (банқі for those of you with the right encoding).

One question that was never resolved is, what happened to those bills? Well I can tell you, because I looked for it. They were quietly released into the money supply and apparently no one has noticed. Which goes to show that there was no reason for all the noise in the first place.

I can verify that this bill has the word “bank” two times on it in Kazakh and this is the only error. So is this worth saving? Will it be worth some money as a collector’s item some day?