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10 Som Goitered Gazelle
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 10 Som |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | Two gold-toned goitered gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) are depicted in high relief against a frosted field, one standing and one recumbent, with a stylised bare shrub in the lower left field. The Cyrillic legend ЖЕЙРЕН (Goitered Gazelle) arcs along the upper rim. The denomination 10 СОМ appears at the upper right, and the Latin binomial GAZELLA SUBGUTTUROSA curves along the lower periphery. The alloy specifications Ag 925 and weight 28.28г are inscribed at the left field. |
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Kyrgyzstan's bimetallic collector series has consistently drawn on the country's endemic fauna, and the goitered gazelle — known locally as the dzheiran — was by the early 2000s already listed as vulnerable across Central Asia due to poaching pressure and habitat loss from post-Soviet agricultural collapse. The National Bank issued several such pieces partly in coordination with regional conservation awareness efforts, though these are collector-grade issues with no circulation role.
KM#54 is among the later entries in this format, with the silver-in-gold bimetallic construction sourced through the same production arrangements used for earlier wildlife pieces in the series.