500 Tenge Al Nabawy

Part of Kazakhstan's "Al-Farabi" bullion and commemorative gold program launched in the mid-2000s, this piece was issued as the National Bank worked to establish a domestic precious metals market following the country's post-Soviet economic consolidation. Al Nabawy refers to the Prophetic tradition in Islamic scholarship — a deliberate acknowledgment of Kazakhstan's deep Central Asian Islamic heritage at a moment when the state was actively negotiating that identity alongside secular governance.