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The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word "bank" on its new notes
The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word "bank" on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday. The bank plans to put the misprinted notes -- worth 2,000 tenge (8 pounds) and 5,000-tenge -- into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.
The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state's politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether. "The mistake ... is not just a spelling problem -- it has political undertones," a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said. |
