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100 Tenge Abai Kunanbaev - Madrasa
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 100 Tenge |
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| Obverse description | A detailed architectural view of the Madrasa occupies the central field, depicting the building with its distinctive minaret and domed mosque to the left, set against a sculpted sky with stylized clouds. A decorative rope border with traditional Kazakh ornamental motifs frames the inner design on the left and right sides. The Cyrillic legend ҚАЗАҚСТАН arcs along the upper rim, with the date 1995 at the lower left and the denomination 100 ТЕҢГЕ prominently displayed along the lower portion of the field. A beaded border runs along the outer edge of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | АБАЙ. ИБРАhИМ. ҚҰНАНБАЙҰЛЫ 1845 1904 |
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Part of Kazakhstan's first commemorative silver series issued following independence, this coin honors Abai Qunanbaiuly, the 19th-century Kazakh poet and philosopher whose work was suppressed under Soviet rule and only fully rehabilitated after 1991. The madrasa reference connects to Abai's formal education in Semipalatinsk, where he studied Islamic scripture and classical literature — an education that would later inform his translations of Pushkin and Lermontov into Kazakh.
The series was produced at the Kazakhstan Mint in its earliest operational years, when the country had only just introduced the tenge in November 1993.