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100 Som Millennium of Manas

Issuer National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
Year 1995
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Currency Som (1993-date)
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Obverse description The national coat of arms of the Kyrgyz Republic occupies the central field, depicting a stylised golden eagle with outstretched wings set against a backdrop of mountain peaks beneath a rising sun with radiating rays. The arms are encircled by a wreath of wheat ears and cotton bolls. The Cyrillic legend КЫРГЫЗ РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ arcs around the upper periphery, while the four-digit date 1995 appears in a decorative cartouche at the base of the design.
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Reverse lettering АЙКӨЛ МАНАС Au 999/6,22 100 СОМ
(Translation: Manas the Magnanimous)
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Manas is the central figure of an oral epic tradition among the Kyrgyz people that runs to roughly 500,000 lines — by some reckonings the longest epic poem in the world. The 1995 issue was part of Kyrgyzstan's broader commemorative program following independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, during which the National Bank moved quickly to establish a numismatic identity around specifically Kyrgyz cultural heritage rather than shared Soviet iconography. The "millennium" framing refers to the approximate thousand-year age scholars attributed to the Manas tradition, though the epic's precise origins remain disputed among Central Asian historians.

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