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500 Manat Turkmenic Jerboa
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 500 Manat (500 TMM) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing portrait bust of President Saparmurat Niyazov, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The effigy depicts the president in a suit and open collar, with naturalistically styled hair. A circular legend surrounds the portrait, divided above and below the bust. |
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| Reverse description | Two Turkmenistan jerboas (Jaculus turkmenicus) depicted in naturalistic detail against a mirror-polished field: one in a leaping posture in the upper right, the other in a foraging posture in the lower centre, each showing the characteristic elongated hind legs and long tufted tail of the species. The denomination '500 MANAT' appears in the left field, with the date '1999' at the lower right. The scientific name 'Jaculus turkmenicus Vinogradov et Bondar' arcs along the upper border, while 'TÜRKMEN YALMANY' (Turkmen Jerboa) is inscribed along the lower border. |
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Turkmenistan's early commemorative program, launched in the mid-1990s following independence from the Soviet Union, leaned heavily on native fauna as subject matter — partly nationalism, partly an attempt to attract foreign collector markets still unfamiliar with the new state's currency. The jerboa series in particular was produced in limited quantities for export sale rather than domestic circulation, as the manat's purchasing power made silver commemoratives effectively inaccessible to ordinary Turkmen citizens in 1999.