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1000 Manat Ashgabat earthquake
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bust of President Saparmurat Niyazov occupies the central field, rendered in high relief with carefully detailed hair and facial features. The upper legend TÜRKMENISTANYÑ PREZIDENTI arcs along the upper periphery, while SAPARMYRAT NYÝAZOW curves along the lower portion of the coin. The portrait is unadorned and presented in a formal, contemporary style befitting a head of state commemorative issue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake — officially acknowledged only after the Soviet collapse — killed an estimated 110,000 people, roughly two-thirds of the city's population, making it one of the deadliest seismic events of the 20th century. Soviet authorities suppressed casualty figures for decades, classifying the disaster partly because Stalin's own son Vasily had been present in the region. Turkmenistan's post-independence government, under Niyazov, reframed the tragedy as a founding national wound; his own mother died in the quake.
This 1998 issue appeared fifty years after the event, during Niyazov's aggressive program of commemorative gold coinage tied to nationalist mythology.