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500 Manat Mammetweli Kemine

Issuer Central Bank of Turkmenistan
Year 2003
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Reference(s) KM#54
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 2003 - Proof - 2,000
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Mammetweli Kemine was an 18th-century Turkmen satirical poet whose sharp, irreverent verse targeted the clergy and ruling classes — an unusual subject for state commemoration in a country that has otherwise favored monuments to its own presidents. His inclusion in this 2003 silver series reflects the early post-Soviet effort to construct a Turkmen national cultural canon distinct from Russian-imposed frameworks, selectively rehabilitating figures who could be read as proto-nationalist voices.

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