Turkmenistan's gold coinage from this period was issued under the presidency of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who had consolidated power following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov — the self-styled "Turkmenbashi" — in 2006. Oguzkhan, the legendary ancestor-king of the Turkic peoples, became a central figure in Berdimuhamedow's nation-building program, displacing some of the more extravagant Niyazov-era iconography while maintaining the same fundamental impulse toward mythologized national identity.
The .916 fineness places this coin in the traditional 22-karat standard shared with British sovereigns and much of historic Ottoman gold coinage.
Turkmenistan's gold coinage from this period was issued under the presidency of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who had consolidated power following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov — the self-styled "Turkmenbashi" — in 2006. Oguzkhan, the legendary ancestor-king of the Turkic peoples, became a central figure in Berdimuhamedow's nation-building program, displacing some of the more extravagant Niyazov-era iconography while maintaining the same fundamental impulse toward mythologized national identity.
The .916 fineness places this coin in the traditional 22-karat standard shared with British sovereigns and much of historic Ottoman gold coinage.