10 Som Kyrgyz Kurosh

The "Kyrgyz Kurosh" designation refers to traditional Kyrgyz wrestling, one of several indigenous sports that Kyrgyzstan has systematically promoted through commemorative coinage as part of broader cultural preservation efforts following Soviet-era suppression of nomadic traditions. This series has drawn on the same impulse that drove the post-independence push to revive the Manas epic and other markers of pre-Soviet identity.

KM#91 was struck at a mintage low enough to make it genuinely scarce in secondary markets outside Central Asia.