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50 Manat Ashgabat
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ GARAŞSYZLYGYNA 20 ÝYL 1991 2011 (Translation: 20 years of independence of Turkmenistan) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a stylised panoramic cityscape of Ashgabat rendered in layered relief, featuring modern high-rise buildings, a prominent equestrian monument, traditional domed architecture, and two doves in flight above the skyline. The urban scene fills the central field and conveys the city's architectural renaissance. The curved Latin legend AŞGABAT GALKYNYŞ EÝÝAMYNDA arcs along the upper periphery. Along the lower border, separated by bullet points, the inscriptions AU 916, ELLI MANAT, and 15,98 gr. record the coin's metallic composition, denomination, and weight respectively. |
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Issued to commemorate Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's capital city rebuilt almost entirely from scratch after a catastrophic 1948 earthquake that killed an estimated 110,000 people — roughly two-thirds of the city's population at the time. Soviet authorities suppressed the true death toll for decades. The reconstruction under Niyazov and later Berdymukhamedov transformed the city into a showcase of white marble architecture, and the commemorative coin program of this period was explicitly tied to state image-building around that transformation.