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1000 Manat 14th anniversary of independence
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | • TÜRKMENISTANYÑ MERKEZI BANKY • 2005 (Translation: Turkmenistan Central Bank) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkmenistan marked its 14th independence anniversary in 2005 still under the rule of Saparmurat Niyazov — "Turkmenbashi" — whose personality cult had by then reshaped the country's calendar, renamed months after himself and his mother, and erected a rotating gold statue of himself in Ashgabat. Gold commemoratives issued during this period were effectively state vanity pieces, produced in extremely limited quantities for presentation and diplomatic purposes rather than any meaningful numismatic market.
KM# 105 is among the scarcer Niyazov-era issues to surface in Western auction records, largely because distribution was tightly controlled through state channels.