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50 Manat Kitabi-Dədə Qorqud
| Issuer | Central Bank of Azerbaijan |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#38, Schön#7 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, stylized inscription arranged in four horizontal lines across the mirror-polished field, reading 'KİTABİ DƏDƏ QORQUD 1300', commemorating the 1300th anniversary of the Book of Dede Korkut, the foundational epic of Turkic literature. The lettering is executed in a distinctive decorative typeface with rounded forms, rendered in high relief against the deeply reflective proof surface. No additional devices or border ornaments are present, allowing the inscription to dominate the composition entirely. |
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| Mintage | 1999 - Proof - 1,000 |
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The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of Oghuz Turkic epic narratives, preserved primarily in two manuscripts — one held in Dresden, one in the Vatican — neither of which was copied in Azerbaijan. The 1999 date is significant: Azerbaijan had been independent for less than a decade, and issuing collector coinage around foundational cultural texts was a deliberate act of national cultural reclamation following seven decades of Soviet suppression of pre-Islamic Turkic heritage.
The Dresden manuscript was rediscovered by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in 1815.