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100 Tenge Gold plaques in the form of deer

Issuer National Bank of Kazakhstan
Year 2022
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Thickness 1.95 mm
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Obverse lettering QAZAQSTAN RESPÝBLIKASY • 2022 •
(Translation: The Republic of Kazakhstan)
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Edge Reeded
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Kazakhstan has issued a substantial number of numismatic pieces drawing on Scythian-era goldwork traditions, particularly the "Animal Style" art associated with burial mounds excavated across the Eurasian steppe. The gold plaques depicted on this coin reference actual artifacts recovered from Saka and Scythian kurgan sites throughout Kazakhstan, some dating as far back as the 7th century BC. The famous "Golden Man" burial discovered at Issyk in 1969 yielded thousands of such deer and animal plaques sewn directly onto ceremonial garments.

The bimetallic format here is a domestic circulation issue rather than a collector piece, which makes its subject matter — elite burial gold — an unusually pointed choice for everyday coinage.

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