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500 Manat Seyitnazar Seydi
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Turkmenistan occupies the central field, featuring a Akhal-Teke horse within a circular wreath, surmounted by a crescent moon and five stars, and framed by an eight-pointed star motif with traditional carpet gul patterns. The legend TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script. The date 2003, flanked by two raised dots, appears in the exergue at the base of the design. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Seyitnazar Seydi (1768–1833) was one of the foundational figures of classical Turkmen literature, a poet whose work circulated orally for generations before being formally collected and published in the Soviet period. Turkmenistan's post-independence commemorative program, launched in the early 1990s under Saparmurat Niyazov, leaned heavily on such pre-Soviet cultural figures as a way of constructing a national literary canon distinct from the Russian imperial and Soviet frameworks that had previously defined official culture.
The 2003 issue falls within the second wave of that program, by which point the Central Bank had standardized on the 28.28 g sterling specification widely used in the international commemorative market of the period.