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100 Tenge Qulan
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 100 Tenge |
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| Obverse lettering | • QAZAQSTAN ULTTYQ BANKI • NATIONAL BANK OF KAZAKHSTAN 100 TEŃGE 2021 |
| Reverse description | Two kulans (Equus hemionus, the Asiatic wild ass) stand facing one another in the center of the field, rendered in fine relief against a steppe landscape backdrop featuring grasses, shrubs, and additional animals visible in the distance. Decorative botanical ornaments flank the lower portion of the design. The Latin scientific name EQUUS HEMIONUS arcs along the upper legend, while the common name QULAN appears along the lower border within a scrollwork cartouche. |
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The qulan — Central Asian wild ass, Equus hemionus onager — was functionally extinct in Kazakhstan by the mid-twentieth century due to hunting and habitat loss, with the population reduced to a few hundred animals before conservation efforts began reversing the decline. Kazakhstan's ongoing wildlife series has used circulating commemorative coinage as a vehicle for domestic conservation awareness since the 1990s, and the qulan appears here as part of that broader program. KM#533 is struck in nickel silver rather than cupronickel, a material choice that gives the finished coin a noticeably cooler, brighter surface than earlier issues in the series.