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500 Manat Uzun Khasan Beg
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing truncated bust effigy of President Saparmurat Niyazov rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. The portrait is unadorned and depicted in civilian dress, with fine detail in the facial features and hair. A circular legend in Latin script arcs around the upper periphery, while the president's name appears along the lower arc, flanked by two small laurel sprigs at the base of the design. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figure of Uzun Hasan Beg (Uzun Hassan), the 15th-century Aq Qoyunlu Turkmen ruler, depicted in traditional Turkmen attire including a tall fur-trimmed papakha hat and flowing robes. He holds a tall pole-mounted banner or standard in his right hand, the flag bearing a decorative emblem. The denomination "500 MANAT" appears to the left of the figure and the date "2001" to the right. An inner legend in Latin script arcs above the figure identifying the subject, while the series inscription curves along the lower margin. The coin's rim is decorated with a beaded border. |
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Uzun Hasan was the fifteenth-century Aq Qoyunlu ruler whose confederation briefly dominated much of Persia and eastern Anatolia before Timurid and later Safavid pressure dismantled the dynasty within decades of his 1478 death. Turkmenistan's post-Soviet commemorative program aggressively claimed such figures as founding ancestors of Turkmen nationhood — a project as much about constructing legitimacy for the Niyazov government as about genuine historical scholarship.
KM#47 is part of the broader 2001 silver commemorative series issued under Saparmurat Niyazov, who by that point had already renamed months of the calendar after himself and his mother.