50 Tenge Tusau Kesu - Cutting Hobbles

Tusau Kesu is a Kazakh ceremony marking a toddler's first steps, in which a braided cord binding the child's legs is cut to symbolize an unobstructed path through life. The National Bank of Kazakhstan issued a series of such coins documenting traditional customs at risk of fading from everyday practice — a cultural documentation project as much as a numismatic one.

Copper-nickel strikes from this series are the circulation-quality counterparts to silver collector versions issued concurrently.