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500 Tenge Kokbori
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 500 Tenge |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic/Latin |
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| Mintage | 2018 KMC - Proof - 3,000 |
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The Kokbori — literally "blue wolf" in Kazakh — occupies a foundational place in Turkic and Mongolian origin mythology, venerated as the ancestral guide of the Turkic peoples and a central figure in the Oghuzname epic tradition. Kazakhstan has issued several wildlife-themed silver coins in this series, but the wolf carries specific cultural weight that separates it from straightforward nature coinage. The embedded diamond and selective gilding are production choices typical of Kazakh commemorative silver from this period, where the mint leaned heavily into mixed-material techniques to distinguish collector issues from bullion.