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100 Manat Məhəmməd Füzuli
| Issuer | National Bank of Azerbaijan |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 7.98 g |
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| Obverse lettering | • AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASI • YÜZ • 1996 • MANAT (Translation: Republic of Azerbaijan, One Hundred Manat) |
| Reverse description | Facing slightly left, a finely engraved bust portrait of the Azerbaijani poet Muhammad bin Suleyman, known as Füzuli, wearing a traditional wrapped turban and a draped robe, with a full beard rendered in detailed relief. The effigy occupies the central field against a deeply mirrored proof background. The legend MƏHƏMMƏD FÜZULİ arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, while the inscription 500 İL appears in the lower exergue, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the poet's birth. |
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Məhəmməd Füzuli, the 16th-century Azerbaijani poet whose work in Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic made him one of the most significant literary figures of the Turkic world, died around 1556 — likely of plague — in Karbala, where he had spent much of his adult life under Ottoman patronage. This coin was issued just five years after Azerbaijan's independence from the Soviet Union, part of a conscious effort to anchor national identity in pre-Soviet cultural figures rather than political ones.
The National Bank issued several gold denominations in this series simultaneously. Füzuli's inclusion alongside other national figures reflected deliberate policy choices about who counted as foundational to the new state.