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50 Tenge Millennium
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 11.17 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The central field bears the official Kazakh commemorative symbol adopted by the State Commission for the ceremonial welcome of the third millennium, a stylized design representing the transition into the year 2000. The country name ҚАЗАҚСТАН appears in the upper legend in Cyrillic script, while the word MILLENNIUM is inscribed in Latin script across the middle field. The date 1999 is placed in the lower exergue. |
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Kazakhstan issued this coin to mark the turn of the millennium while the country was barely eight years into its existence as an independent state, having only established the tenge as its national currency in 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The National Bank was still a young institution navigating the transition from a command economy, and commemorative issues like this one served a dual function: marking calendar events while also building the visual and material culture of a sovereign monetary system from scratch.