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1000 Manat Gurbandurdy Zelili
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 1000 Manat (1000 TMM) |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY · 2003 · (Translation: Turkmenistan Central Bank) |
| Reverse description | Facing bust portrait of the Turkmen poet Gurbandurdy Zelili, depicted with a full beard and traditional headdress, rendered in high relief against a plain field. A decorative spray of tulip blossoms appears to the lower right of the portrait. The legend 'GURBANDURDY - ZELILI' arcs along the upper periphery within an ornamental border, with the birth and death years '1795' and '1850' inscribed to the lower left, and the denomination '1000 MANAT' to the lower right. |
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Gurbandurdy Zelili was an 18th-century Turkmen poet whose work circulated orally for generations before being formally transcribed — his inclusion on a gold commemorative in 2003 reflects the post-Soviet project of constructing a national literary canon under Saparmurat Niyazov's presidency. Niyazov, who had declared himself Türkmenbashi, was simultaneously issuing his own writings as sacred national texts, which makes the choice to honor a pre-Soviet folk poet a genuinely complicated cultural signal.
The .917 fineness places this squarely in the 22-karat commemorative tradition common to Central Asian issues of the period.