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10 Som Uzgen
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Üzgön — the city this coin commemorates — was one of the major urban centers of the Karakhanid Khanate, a Turkic dynasty that ruled Central Asia from roughly the 10th to 13th centuries. The Karakhanids were among the first Turkic ruling dynasties to adopt Islam, and Üzgön served as a significant administrative and religious center during their peak. The minaret and mausolea complex surviving there today date to that period and remain among the best-preserved Karakhanid monuments anywhere in the region.
The bimetallic silver-in-gold construction places this firmly within the National Bank's commemorative program of the mid-2000s, which used precious-metal bimetallics to highlight Kyrgyzstan's pre-Soviet architectural heritage.