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500 Manat Caspian Snowcock
| Issuer | Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYÑ PREZIDENTI SAPARMYRAT NYҰAZOW (Translation: Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov) |
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| Reverse lettering | Tetraogallus caspius Gmelin 500 MANAT 1996 KASPI ULARY |
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Issued as part of Turkmenistan's first wildlife conservation series, released just five years after independence from the Soviet Union. The Caspian snowcock (Tetraogallus caspius) inhabits the high-altitude rocky slopes of the Kopet Dag range along Turkmenistan's southern border with Iran — terrain so inhospitable that the bird itself is rarely encountered by collectors in any form, numismatic or otherwise.
The series was struck at a foreign mint, as Turkmenistan had no domestic minting facility capable of producing commemorative silver at this specification in the mid-1990s.