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200 Som Alıqul Osmonov 100 Years
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 200 Som |
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| Obverse lettering | КЫРГЫЗ БАНКЫ Алыкул Осмоновго 100 жыл ЭКИ ЖҮЗ СОМ 200 (Translation: Bank of Kyrgyzstan, Alıqul Osmonov 100 years, Two Hundred Som) |
| Reverse description | A vignette of Issyk-Kul lake stretches across the reverse, rendered in a landscape composition with mountain scenery framing the shoreline. A commemorative overprint bearing a verse by Alıqul Osmonov dedicated to the lake is applied in Cyrillic script over the existing design. The denomination '200' and the bank title appear in the standard typeset lettering of the underlying note. |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Alıqul Osmonov, the Kyrgyz poet widely regarded as the father of modern Kyrgyz literature. Osmonov died in 1950 at thirty-four, but his compressed output had a disproportionate influence on how the Kyrgyz literary language was standardized in the Soviet period — he worked at a moment when written Kyrgyz was still being formalized, and his verse helped anchor it.
This is one of several commemorative issues the National Bank has produced honoring cultural rather than political figures, a pattern that began in earnest after 2000.