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50 Tenge Boorsog / Kolobok
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 50 Tenge |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mint | (KMC) Kazakhstan Mint (Қазақстан теңге сарайы), Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan (1992-date) |
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Part of Kazakhstan's "Fairy Tales" commemorative series, this coin pairs a Russian folktale (Kolobok, the runaway bread roll) with a Kazakh equivalent (Boorsog, a traditional fried dough). The dual-tale concept was deliberate — an official nod to Kazakhstan's bicultural identity during a period when the government was actively promoting Kazakh cultural heritage alongside inherited Soviet-era Russian influence.
Boorsog itself is not merely folkloric; the food remains a fixture at Kazakh ceremonial gatherings, which gives this issue an ethnographic footnote that most novelty coins lack.