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10 Som Victory Peak
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Kyrgyz Republic is depicted in the upper portion of the coin within a circular field, featuring the traditional tunduk (the crown of a yurt) surmounted by an eagle with outstretched wings. A stylized outline of mountain peaks occupies the lower portion of the field, with the commemorative legend arcing across the middle in Cyrillic script. The date 2011 appears in the exergue beneath the mountain motif. The entire design is framed by a decorative border of alternating triangular points around the coin's circumference. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Victory Peak — known in Kyrgyz as Jengish Chokusu — sits on the Chinese border at 7,439 meters and was called Pobeda ("Victory") by Soviet cartographers who first mapped it in 1943, timing the naming to coincide with the turning of the tide at Stalingrad. The National Bank of Kyrgyzstan issued a series of collector coins commemorating the country's major geographical landmarks following independence, this piece among them.
The mountain has a grim climbers' mortality record, attributed largely to its extreme weather exposure on the northern edge of the Tian Shan range.