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500 Tenge Ursus Arctos Isabellinus
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#100 |
| Obverse description | The face value '500' is prominently displayed in large stylized numerals at the center of the field, with the denomination 'ТЕҢГЕ' inscribed below. A decorative spiral motif appears above the numeral, and the date '·2008·' is situated beneath the denomination. The issuer legend 'ҚАЗАҚСТАН ҰЛТТЫҚ БАНКІ' runs along the rim in Cyrillic script, accompanied by ornamental Kazakh national patterns framing the design. The fineness and weight inscription 'Ag 925 24 gr.' appears in the upper right portion of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic/Latin |
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The Himalayan brown bear — the subspecies depicted here — had already disappeared from much of its Central Asian range by 2008, with viable populations surviving mainly in fragmented pockets across the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain systems that straddle Kazakhstan's southeastern borders. Kazakhstan's national conservation program, which this coin was issued to support awareness of, listed the subspecies as critically threatened domestically even as international classification lagged behind ground-level population data.
Part of a broader wildlife series from the National Bank, these issues were struck in limited collector quantities and saw essentially no circulation.