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10 Som Burana

Uitgever National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
Jaar 2008
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Waarde 10 Som
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Schrift voorzijde Cyrillic
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Opschrift keerzijde 10 СОМ Ag 925 / 28.28 БУРАНА
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Aanvullende informatie

The Burana Tower, for which this coin is named, is a remnant of the ancient Silk Road city of Balasagun, once a capital of the Karakhanid Khanate. The tower originally stood roughly twice its current height before partial collapse, probably seismic, reduced it to the truncated stump visible today. Kyrgyzstan began issuing bimetallic collector pieces in the early 2000s as part of a deliberate program to assert cultural identity through numismatic commemoratives — a pattern common to post-Soviet republics navigating newly independent monetary institutions.

The silver-in-gold bimetallic format was an expensive choice for a small economy, signaling these were never intended for circulation.