Currency history
Kyrgyzstani som
Kyrgyzstani som: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- KGS
- Ancestry branch
- Russian ruble
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Where this money came from
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PredecessorRUB
Russian rubleThis currencyKGS
Kyrgyzstani somNo successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
The som was introduced on 10 May 1993, divided into 100 tyiyn. [1]
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“Kyrgyzstani som.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000364.html