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500 Tenge 100th Anniversary of Kazakhstan Railroads
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Diameter | 37 mm |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ KMC 24 gr. Ag 925 500 ТЕҢГЕ |
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Kazakhstan's rail network traces directly to Tsarist-era construction, with the critical Turkestan-Siberia line — the "Turksib" — completed under Soviet direction in 1930 after years of contested planning and brutal labor conditions. By the centennial being marked here, the network had absorbed the administrative chaos of post-Soviet independence and was reorganized under KazakhstanTemir Zholy, the national rail operator established in 1997.
KM#118 is part of a broader commemorative silver program the National Bank ran aggressively through the early 2000s, producing themed issues in relatively small quantities for collector markets rather than circulation.