The currency abbreviation or currency symbol for the Kazakhstan tenge (KZT), the currency of Kazakhstan. The tenge is made of 100 tiyn and is often presented with a symbol that looks like the capital letter T with a horizontal line above it. The name of the currency denotes a set of equal scales. 



|||The tenge was first seen in 1993, replacing the Russian ruble. The first tenge coins were actually minted in Germany, and a mint for paper currency began operation within Kazakhstan in 1995. This mint printed a new and more decorative series of banknotes in 2006.