The National Bank of Kazakhstan has begun the issue of newly minted coins that include text in the Latin alphabet, which the country officially began transitioning to in 2017. The new coins are part of a presidential decree initiated by the former president, Nazarbaev, who announced in April 2017 that all national publications, documents, correspondences as well as street signs in the whole of Kazakhstan will switch from a Cyrillic-based alphabet to a Latin-based alphabet by 2025
