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200 Tenge Keloglan
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 200 Tenge |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central depiction of Keloğlan, the celebrated trickster hero of Turkish folk tales, rendered in an illustrative style evoking traditional storytelling imagery. The character is shown in his iconic guise as a magical figure associated with Anatolian fairy tale tradition. The coin's date 2023 appears in the field, accompanied by the bilingual legend TÜRK MASALI in Latin script and TÚRIK ERTEGISI in Cyrillic script, identifying the subject as a Turkish tale. The name KELOĞLAN is inscribed prominently in association with the central motif. |
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| Reverse lettering | Keloğlan TÜRK MASALI 2023 TÚRIK ERTEGISI |
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Keloglan is a bald-headed trickster figure appearing across Turkic folklore from Anatolia to Central Asia — a peasant boy who outsmarts nobles, demons, and khans through cunning rather than strength. Kazakhstan's ongoing collectible circulation series has systematically drawn on this shared Turkic narrative heritage, issuing coins tied to characters and tales that predate any modern national border.
Nickel silver was chosen for the series precisely because it holds die detail well at moderate production cost, allowing the relief work on folklore-themed issues to remain crisp without the expense of precious metal strikes.