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500 Tenge Leontopodium Flower
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 500 Tenge |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a finely detailed proof composition centered on three blossoming Leontopodium (edelweiss) flowers rendered in high relief, their characteristic star-shaped woolly bracts and clustered capitula depicted with botanical precision. The background features a concentric wave pattern radiating from the center, creating a vivid contrast with the raised floral design. The Latin legend 'LEONTOPODIUM' curves along the upper left arc in stylized lettering, while the Cyrillic inscription 'ЕҢЛІКГҮЛ' (the Kazakh name for edelweiss) appears along the upper right arc. The date '2007' and the mint mark 'KMC' are inscribed within the design field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Kazakhstan launched its "Flora and Fauna" bullion series in the early 2000s partly as a soft-power exercise — demonstrating that a post-Soviet republic could produce internationally competitive collector coinage. The edelweiss, known in Kazakh botanical tradition as a high-altitude indicator species found in the Tian Shan and Altai ranges, was a deliberate choice: ecologically specific to Central Asian terrain rather than borrowed from the Alpine iconography more familiar to Western buyers.
KM#92 carries a mintage low enough to make it genuinely scarce in secondary markets a decade after issue.