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10 Som Mother-deer
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Som (1993-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ЕВРАЗЭС ӨЛКӨЛӨРҮНҮН ЭЛДЕРИНИН УЛАМЫШТАРЫ ЖАНА ЖОМОКТОРУ 2009 (Translation: Legends and Tales of Peoples of EurAsEC Countries) |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The Mother-deer holds a specific place in Kyrgyz cosmology as a protective ancestral spirit — the guardian figure of lineage and origin in pre-Islamic nomadic belief systems that persisted across the steppe long after the formal conversion of the region's populations. Kyrgyzstan's commemorative silver program, launched in earnest after independence in 1991, drew heavily on this indigenous mythological vocabulary as a deliberate assertion of cultural identity distinct from the Soviet period.
KM#41 is part of a broader series issued by the National Bank pairing .925 silver with subjects drawn from Kyrgyz epic tradition and folklore.