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500 Tenge Umai. Mountain Altai
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | At center, the denomination '500' is displayed in large numerals against a rectangular panel decorated with traditional Kazakh ornamental scrollwork in relief. Below the numeral panel, the word 'ТЕҢГЕ' appears in Latin-style Cyrillic capitals. A small spiral tamga symbol is positioned at the top of the inner field. The surrounding border carries the Cyrillic legend 'ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ' along the upper arc and the date '2001' along the lower arc, separated by raised bullet points. |
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| Obverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ • 2001 • 500 ТЕҢГЕ |
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Umai is a protective deity in Turkic mythology, associated with children, fertility, and the hearth — one of the oldest figures in the pre-Islamic spiritual traditions of the steppe peoples. Kazakhstan's series of silver issues from this period drew deliberately on that pre-Islamic cultural inheritance, a pointed curatorial choice for a government navigating national identity construction a decade after Soviet dissolution. The Mountain Altai, shared across Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, and China, holds particular weight in Turkic cosmology as a sacred ancestral homeland.