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500 Manat Flag Day and the birthday of the President

Issuer Central Bank of Turkmenistan
Year 2003
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 2003 - Proof - 1,000
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Saparmurat Niyazov — who had by this point legally renamed himself Turkmenbashi, "Father of all Turkmen" — declared his own birthday a national holiday, Flag Day, conflating it with a state occasion to lend it institutional permanence. The coin was issued under direct orders from a government that regularly deployed the mint as an instrument of personality cult, alongside golden statues and a rotating monument to himself in Ashgabat that perpetually faced the sun.

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