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500 Manat Nisa Fortress
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 500 Manat (500 TMM) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY NUSAÝ 500 MANAT 2000 • BEÝIK TARYHY MIRASLARYMYZ • MITRIDATKERT • HUDAÝAYALY (Translation: Turkmenistan Central Bank — Nisa — 500 Manat — 2000 — Our Great Historical Heritage — Mithridatkert — Hudayayaly) |
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Nisa — known in antiquity as Mithridatkert — served as the royal necropolis and treasury of the early Parthian kings, founded by Mithridates I in the 2nd century BC. The site sits near modern Ashgabat and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage candidate partly on Turkmenistan's post-independence drive to anchor national identity in pre-Islamic, pre-Russian antiquity. That political project drove much of the commemorative coinage program Ashgabat pursued through the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Excavations at Nisa by Soviet archaeologists from the 1930s onward uncovered the famous rhyta — carved ivory drinking horns — now held in Ashgabat's national museum.