In a hundred years or so the new bills issued by the National Bank of Kazakhstan are likely to become a numismatic rarity, the Vremya Novostei newspaper reports.

The first batch of new 2,000-tenge and 5,000-tenge bills contain a mistake in the name of the National Bank of Kazakhstan.

The bank executives have blamed the misprint on a computer software glitch.

But as most of the notes have already been printed the Kazakh government decided to put the bills into circulation anyway, chairman of the National Bank, Anvar Saidenov, told a lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament.

He assured the lawmakers that the mistake had already been corrected and new notes would have correct spelling.

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