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500 Somoni National Museum
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 500 Somoni |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a colourised frontal view of the National Museum of Tajikistan in Dushanbe, rendered in gilt and colour tones, occupying the central field. Above the building, the colourised coat of arms of the city of Dushanbe is depicted, flanked by two ornamental cartouches bearing the dates '1924' and '2014' respectively. Below the building, the numeral '90' enclosed within a decorative gilt wreath commemorates the 90th anniversary of Dushanbe as the capital. The bilingual peripheral legend in Cyrillic and Latin reads '• ПОЙТАХТИ ҶУМҲУРИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН ШАҲРИ ДУШАНБЕ •' and '• DUSHANBE IS THE CAPITAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN •'. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The National Museum of Tajikistan in Dushanbe opened in its current form in 2011, built as part of a broader state construction program under President Rahmon that reshaped the capital's monumental architecture in the years following Tajikistan's emergence from a devastating civil war that ran from 1992 to 1997. The museum consolidates collections previously scattered across Soviet-era institutions, including artifacts from the Bactrian and Sogdian civilizations that predate the region's Islamization by centuries.
The 500 Somoni face value is nominal — a collector denomination well above the coin's legal tender purchasing power in circulation.