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500 Manat Akhal Mosque
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ ILKINJI WE ÖMÜRLIK PREZIDENTI ∙ SAPARMYRAT NYÝAZOW ∙ (Translation: The first and lifelong President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Akhal region's principal mosque was constructed under Saparmurat Niyazov, the self-styled "Türkmenbaşy," whose personality cult reshaped the country's architecture, currency, and public life throughout the 1990s. Niyazov placed his own image and the images of structures bearing his imprimatur on a remarkable volume of commemorative coinage during this period — this issue among them.
The 500 Manat denomination had negligible purchasing power by 2000, the manat having suffered severe inflation since independence in 1991.