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1000 Manat Amu Darya sturgeon
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | • TÜRKMENISTANYÑ MERKEZI BANKY • 2006 (Translation: Turkmenistan Central Bank) |
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| Mintage | 2006 - Proof - 300 |
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The Amu Darya sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni) is endemic to the Amu Darya river basin and by 2006 was already functionally commercially extinct, its population having collapsed due to Soviet-era water diversion projects that devastated the river system feeding the Aral Sea. Turkmenistan's wildlife commemorative series from this period coincided with early post-Soviet efforts to catalog regional biodiversity losses rather than celebrate abundance.
KM# 102 belongs to a broader run of Turkmen silver issues that were minted largely for the collector export market — domestic circulation of commemorative denominations at this face value was purely nominal.