1 Som Tashrabat

The Tash-Rabat caravanserai, for which this coin is named, is a 15th-century stone structure in the Naryn region that served travelers along a secondary Silk Road branch through the Tian Shan mountains. Its exact origin is disputed — some scholars attribute it to a Nestorian Christian monastery predating the caravanserai's mercantile use. Kyrgyzstan's commemorative som series of the mid-2000s was explicitly designed to assert cultural heritage at a moment when the country was still working through the political instability following the 2005 Tulip Revolution.