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500 Tenge Umai. Mountain Altai
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | • УМАЙ • ТАУЛЫ АЛТАЙ • UMAI • MOUNTAIN ALTAI Ag 925 24 gr. KMC |
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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.