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1 Som Sulaiman
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 1 Som |
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| Obverse lettering | КЫРГЫЗСТАН УЛУУ ЖИБЕК ЖОЛУНДА КЫРГЫЗ РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ 2009 (Translation: Kyrgyzstan on the Great Silk Road, Kyrgyz Republic) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 СОМ СУЛАЙМАН - ТОО (Translation: 1 Som, Sulayman Mountain) |
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The Sulaiman-Too mountain in Osh — the subject of this issue — was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2009, the same year this coin was released. The site had been a place of pilgrimage for over a millennium, with shrines and petroglyphs carved into its rock faces dating back to the 10th century. Kyrgyzstan's commemorative coinage program of this period was partly a deliberate effort to assert cultural identity in the post-Soviet space, where national symbols carried outsized political weight.