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500 Manat Shirkebir Mausoleum
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a detailed relief view of the Shirkebir Mausoleum (Şirkebir Guburhana-Metjidi), a 10th-century funerary mosque located in the Balkan region of Turkmenistan, shown as a rocky, eroded architectural mass rising from a flat base. The inscription BALKAN appears above the monument, with the denomination 500 MANAT to the right. Below the monument, the Turkmen inscription ŞIRKEBIR GUBURHANA-METJIDI / X asyr / 2000 identifies the structure and its historical period. The outer border features a decorative band of traditional Turkmen geometric ornament, with the circular legend TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY arcing above and BEÝIK TARYHY MIRASLARYMYZ along the lower arc. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkmenistan's commemorative coinage program of the late 1990s and early 2000s was orchestrated almost entirely as an instrument of President Saparmurat Niyazov's personality cult and national mythology-building project. The Shirkebir Mausoleum at Anau, a fifteenth-century Timurid structure, was severely damaged by the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake — one of the deadliest seismic events in Soviet history, killing an estimated 110,000 people in a city of roughly 130,000.
Niyazov, who survived the earthquake as a child, later made its ruins a focal point of constructed Turkmen national identity.