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1000 Manat Gorkut Ata Turkmen
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Weight | 39.94 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | GORKUT ATA TÜRKMEN EÝÝAMY 650 ỳ X asyr 1000 manat (Translation: Gorkut Ata The era of the Turkmen 650 years 10th century 1000 manat) |
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Gorkut Ata — known in broader Turkic literature as Dede Korkut — is the mythic bard-sage whose oral epic cycle predates Islam's arrival in Central Asia and survives in manuscript form at the Dresden State Library. Turkmenistan's post-independence commemorative gold program leaned heavily on such pre-Soviet cultural touchstones, a deliberate reassertion of Turkic identity under Saparmurat Niyazov's presidency. This coin was struck the year before Niyazov's death in December 2006, during the height of his personality cult and his regime's aggressive rebranding of national heritage.