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500 Tenge 1500 years of Turkestan
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКI 500 ТЕҢГЕ Au 999 KMC 2000 (Translation: National Bank of Kazakhstan 500 Tenge Au 999 2000) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkestan — known in earlier centuries as Yasi — became a pilgrimage destination of Central Asian significance after the construction of the Yasawi mausoleum, commissioned by Timur in the 1390s and never fully completed at his death. The city's claimed 1,500-year foundation date, marked by this issue, is a round-figure approximation rather than a documented historical anchor; Kazakhstan used the millennial framework partly to assert deep pre-Soviet roots for a city that had spent decades as a provincial Soviet administrative point.
Struck at 7.78 grams of .999 gold, this falls precisely into the quarter-ounce category.