Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500 Manat Makhtumkuli Fragi
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
|---|---|
| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 28.28 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY ·2003· (Translation: Turkmenistan Central Bank) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Makhtumkuli Fragi, the 18th-century Turkmen poet-philosopher, became the central cultural symbol of Turkmen national identity long before independence — but it was the post-Soviet government of Saparmurat Niyazov that elevated him to something approaching a secular saint. This 2003 issue arrived during Niyazov's most intense period of personality-cult construction, when state iconography was being systematically rebuilt around a narrow canon of approved heroes.
Fragi's own life was marked by personal tragedy; the destruction of his village by raiders and the death of his family informed much of his surviving verse.