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1000 Manat Snow leopard
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Manat (1993-2009) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ALAJABARS 1000 manat |
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Turkmenistan's gold coinage program of the mid-2000s coincided with the final years of Saparmurat Niyazov's presidency — a period of extreme isolationism during which the country's monetary policy and numismatic output were both wielded as instruments of national image-building. The snow leopard, found in small numbers across the Kopet Dag range along the Iranian border, carried particular symbolic weight in a state that banned foreign media, renamed months of the year, and constructed a rotating golden statue of its leader.
Niyazov died in December 2006, the same year this coin was struck.