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500 Tenge Haloxylon
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The central design features a blossoming saxaul tree (Haloxylon) set against a desert landscape, with the year of issue '2016' inscribed in the field. Along the periphery of the oval flan, the Kazakh Cyrillic legend 'СЕКСЕУІЛ' and its Latin botanical designation 'Haloxylon' are inscribed. To the right of the main design, a detailed close-up vignette depicts a flowering branch of the saxaul as though viewed through a magnifying glass, rendered with polychrome color applied by pad-printing technology. |
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The saxaul — known locally as zheksau — is a leafless halophytic tree that holds the Eurasian steppe's shifting sands together, and its near-collapse under Soviet-era agricultural policy contributed directly to the Aral Sea disaster. Kazakhstan has issued a number of collector pieces in its ongoing nature conservation series, and this saxaul issue fits squarely within that program, struck in the year the country was still managing the long-term ecological fallout from one of the twentieth century's worst man-made environmental catastrophes.