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The national arms of Uzbekistan are displayed in the central field, featuring a spread-winged Humo bird above a rising sun with radiating rays, flanked by wreaths of wheat and cotton branches tied with a ribbon inscribed UZBEKISTON, and surmounted by an eight-pointed star. The circular legend O'ZBEKISTON MARKAZIY BANKI runs along the upper periphery in Latin script, with the date 2001 at the bottom. The fineness designation AG 999,9 appears at the lower left of the border, and the weight 31,1 gr is inscribed at the lower right, all within a beaded inner border. |
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O'ZBEKISTON MUSTAQILLIGINING 10 YILLIGI · 100 SO'M |
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Issued to commemorate the opening of the Amir Timur Museum in Tashkent, which had been inaugurated by President Islam Karimov in 1996 as part of a deliberate state programme to rehabilitate Timur — known in the West as Tamerlane — as a founding figure of Uzbek national identity. The Soviet era had largely suppressed his memory; post-independence, he was repositioned almost overnight as the country's defining historical symbol.
KM#20 is one of the earliest silver commemoratives struck under the Central Bank's numismatic programme, which was still finding its footing in 2001.