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500 Manat Muhammet Bayram Khan
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ ILKINJI WE ÖMÜRLIK PREZIDENTI ∙ SAPARMYRAT NYÝAZOW ∙ (Translation: The first and lifelong President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov) |
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| Mintage | 2001 - Proof - 1,000 |
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Muhammet Bayram Khan was the 16th-century poet and grand vizier who served as guardian and chief adviser to the young Mughal emperor Akbar — a Turkic figure the post-Soviet Turkmen state actively claimed as part of its national heritage project under Saparmurat Niyazov. This coin belongs to a larger commemorative series Niyazov commissioned in the late 1990s and early 2000s to construct a usable pantheon of Turkmen historical identity, drawing on figures spanning centuries and geographies.
Bayram Khan was assassinated in 1561 by an Afghan nobleman at Patan, Gujarat — far from any land that would become Turkmenistan.