1 Somoni Aryens

The Aryens series was issued by the National Bank of Tajikistan as part of a broader numismatic program intended to reinforce post-Soviet national identity through pre-Islamic Central Asian heritage. The Aryan peoples — ancestral to the Iranian-speaking populations of the region — gave Tajikistan a cultural lineage distinct from its Turkic neighbors, a distinction that carries real political weight in the modern republic.