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500 Tenge Flamingos
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Oval proof flan featuring two Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) rendered in high-relief frosted finish against a mirror-polished field. The two birds face each other with necks entwined to form a graceful heart-shaped silhouette, their plumage detailed with fine feather texturing. A sun or moon disc appears in the upper right field. The Latin binomial 'PHOENICOPTERUS ROSEUS' arcs along the upper left inner border, while the Cyrillic vernacular name 'ҚОҚИҚАЗ' is inscribed along the lower right inner border. |
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| Mintage | 2009 KMC - Proof - 4,000 |
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Kazakhstan's Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008, hosts the world's northernmost colony of flamingos — a biological anomaly that makes the subject genuinely unusual rather than decorative. The reserve sits on the Central Asian flyway, and the flamingo population there has been a subject of ornithological study since Soviet-era expeditions first documented nesting behavior at those latitudes.