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1000 Manat Father - Atamurat Niyazov
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 39.94 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2002 - - 200 |
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Saparmurat Niyazov — who bestowed upon himself the title "Türkmenbaşy," meaning Father of all Turkmen — commissioned this gold issue as part of a sustained personality cult that had, by 2002, renamed months of the calendar after himself and his mother. The coin's very title, invoking "Father," was inseparable from that apparatus of self-deification.
Niyazov ruled Turkmenistan from independence in 1991 until his death in 2006, maintaining near-total control over the country's vast natural gas revenues. The Central Bank operated under conditions where monetary policy and political theater were functionally indistinct.