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50 Teńge Gold KÓKBÓRI - Investment Coinage
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2023 - proof - 2023 - uncirculated - |
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Kökböri — the blue wolf — is the mythological ancestor-figure of the Turkic peoples, appearing in the Oghuz-nama and related oral traditions as the totemic guide leading proto-Turkic tribes out of an iron mountain. Kazakhstan's bullion program has leaned heavily into this pre-Islamic steppe mythology since the mid-2010s, issuing successive pieces that function simultaneously as legal-tender investment coinage and as artifacts of deliberate national identity construction.
The interference rainbow coating applied over .9999 gold is achieved through physical vapor deposition, producing chromatic shift without paint or enamel — a technique borrowed from optical manufacturing rather than traditional minting.