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10 Manat Monument of the Constitution
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 10 Manat |
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| Reverse lettering | KONSTITUSIÝA BINASY * Au 916 * ON MANAT * 15,98 gr. * 1991 2011 (Translation: Monument to the Constitution Ten manat) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkmenistan's constitutional history is short and turbulent. The 1992 constitution concentrated near-absolute power in the presidency, and its 2008 revision — passed under Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow — abolished the Halk Maslahaty, the People's Council, while simultaneously expanding executive authority. The monument commemorated on this coin was erected in Ashgabat as part of a broader urban transformation program that razed Soviet-era neighborhoods in favor of white marble government architecture, much of it dedicated to glorifying the state itself.
The .9167 fineness places this in the 22-karat category standard for many Central Asian commemorative issues of the period, struck in limited quantities for collector export rather than domestic circulation.