Catalog
100 Soʻm Ulugʻbek
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | O'ZBEKISTON RESPUBLIKASI 100 SO'M Ag 999,9 31,1 gr. 1999 yil (Translation: Republic of Uzbekistan) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ulugh Beg ruled the Timurid Empire from Samarkand beginning in 1411 and built one of the most sophisticated observatories of the medieval world, producing star catalogues accurate to within fractions of a degree using instruments scaled in meters rather than lenses. He was assassinated in 1449 at the order of his own son. The 1999 issue falls within Uzbekistan's early commemorative silver program, the same period when the young republic was actively constructing a national identity around pre-Soviet Central Asian scholars and rulers.