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500 Tenge Aldar-Kose
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | АЛДАР-КӨСЕ • 2011 • Ag 925 31,1 gr. KMC |
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Aldar-Kose is a beloved trickster figure from Kazakh oral folklore — a clever, beardless wanderer who outwits the greedy and the arrogant through wit rather than force. The character has no single origin text but accumulated across centuries of steppe storytelling tradition, functioning as a moral corrective in nomadic society where cunning was a survival trait. Kazakhstan's series of cultural hero coins, of which this is one entry, was part of a broader post-independence effort to codify and elevate distinctly Kazakh cultural identity through official coinage.