Issued as part of Kazakhstan's ongoing "Beren Myltyq" — "Strong Weapons" — series commemorating traditional Kazakh armaments, this 2020 circulation-quality bimetallic piece sits in a program that has drawn on steppe warfare heritage dating back to the Turkic and Mongol periods. The specific weapon honored in this issue reflects the broader post-independence effort by Almaty and Nur-Sultan institutions to codify and celebrate pre-Soviet Kazakh material culture, much of which was systematically suppressed or reframed during the Soviet ethnographic project.
Issued as part of Kazakhstan's ongoing "Beren Myltyq" — "Strong Weapons" — series commemorating traditional Kazakh armaments, this 2020 circulation-quality bimetallic piece sits in a program that has drawn on steppe warfare heritage dating back to the Turkic and Mongol periods. The specific weapon honored in this issue reflects the broader post-independence effort by Almaty and Nur-Sultan institutions to codify and celebrate pre-Soviet Kazakh material culture, much of which was systematically suppressed or reframed during the Soviet ethnographic project.