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10 Som Arkhar Ram
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Som (1993-date) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The arkhar — Ovis ammon, the Argali wild sheep — roams the high-altitude ranges of the Tian Shan and Pamir plateaus that define much of Kyrgyzstan's terrain. This issue belongs to the National Bank's early commemorative program launched after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, a period when newly sovereign central banks across Central Asia used silver coinage partly as a hard-currency revenue mechanism and partly to assert distinct national identities through indigenous fauna.
KM#6 is among the earliest silver issues in the Kyrgyz commemorative catalog.