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| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | • ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ • KMC 500 ТЕНГЕ 2008 Ag 925 31.1 gr. REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Nurlan Kalmykov was a celebrated Kazakh artist whose work drew heavily from nomadic steppe traditions, and this issue belongs to Kazakhstan's long-running series honoring national cultural figures — a program the National Bank launched in the early 2000s as part of a broader effort to codify a distinctly Kazakhstani cultural identity following Soviet dissolution. The "Unnamed" designation in collector literature reflects an unresolved cataloging ambiguity rather than anything unusual about the coin itself.