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500 Tenge Assa Tayak
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a bust-length figure of a traditional Kazakh musician dressed in national costume and a feathered headdress, holding an assa tayak (ceremonial staff-rattle) raised in the right hand. The denomination '500 ТЕҢГЕ' appears to the left of the figure, with the fineness and weight notation 'Ag 925 24 gr.' inscribed in the lower right field. A bilingual legend arcs around the periphery in Cyrillic and Latin scripts, reading 'ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ' at upper left and 'REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN' at upper right. The design is executed in high-relief proof finish against a mirrored field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Cyrillic |
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Assa Tayak is a traditional Kazakh staff carried by elders and used as both a walking stick and a symbol of authority within nomadic communities. The National Bank of Kazakhstan issued a series of coins in the early 2000s documenting objects of material culture at risk of disappearing from living memory — this piece belongs to that program, which drew on ethnographic collections to ensure accuracy of depiction.