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500 Tenge Homeland of Apples
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a finely detailed relief of a spreading apple tree with numerous round fruits rendered in plain silver against a lightly textured background; the naturalistic tree trunk rises from a stylized mountain range in the lower field, its branches extending to fill the coin's surface. The circular legend along the upper and lateral rim reads in Cyrillic and Latin scripts, identifying the issuing state and denomination. No effigy is present; the design is purely symbolic, celebrating the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan. |
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| Obverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ • 500 ТЕҢГЕ • REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN (Translation: The Republic of Kazakhstan 500 Tenge) |
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Kazakhstan's Almaty region is widely accepted by botanists and geneticists as the ancestral homeland of Malus sieversii, the wild progenitor of virtually every cultivated apple variety eaten today. This coin was issued as part of a broader Kazakh program promoting the country's natural and ecological heritage, timed loosely with growing international scientific attention to the Tian Shan forests where wild apple groves still survive — and continue to shrink due to urban encroachment.