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500 Manat Flag Day and the birthday of the President
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Manat (1993-2009) |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a faithful representation of the cover of the Ruhnama, the spiritual and philosophical book authored by President Saparmurat Türkmenbaşy, shown as a framed rectangular book cover set against a mirror-polished field. The book cover bears a right-facing bust portrait of the President above the bold inscription RUHNAMA, with a double-headed eagle emblem below. The author's name SAPARMYRAT TÜRKMENBAŞY is inscribed at the top of the book cover. The surrounding field is decorated with fine radiating lines emanating from the central book motif, creating a sunburst effect extending to the reeded rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | SAPARMYRAT TÜRKMENBAŞY RUHNAMA (Translation: Saparmyrat Türkmenbaşy (Head of the Turkmen) / Ruhnama (Book of the Soul)) |
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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.