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| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | GAZAGYSTAN – TÜRKMENISTAN – EÝRAN DOSTLUK DEMIR ÝOLY * 2014 * (Translation: The Railway of friendship Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan - Iran) |
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The rail line commemorated here — linking Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran — was completed in December 2014 after years of construction across some of the most logistically hostile terrain in Central Asia. The missing segment through the Turkmen desert was the final piece of a corridor that for the first time gave landlocked Central Asian states a direct rail connection to Persian Gulf ports, bypassing Russian infrastructure entirely. Ashgabat treated the opening as a geopolitical event of the first order, with presidents of all three nations attending the ceremony at Serhetabat.