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500 Tenge Bessikke Salu
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Mint | (KMC) Kazakhstan Mint (Қазақстан теңге сарайы), Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan (1992-date) |
| Mintage | 2006 KMC - Proof - 4,000 |
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Bessikke Salu — literally "putting the child in the cradle" — is one of the forty traditional Kazakh rites of passage collectively known as the qyrqynan shyğaru cycle, marking the first forty days of an infant's life. This 2006 issue belongs to a broader National Bank series documenting Kazakh customs that faced systematic suppression during the Soviet period, when such ceremonies were officially discouraged as remnants of pre-socialist culture. The series was itself a deliberate act of cultural reclamation following independence in 1991.