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500 Tenge Y. Altynsarin
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the coat of arms of the Republic of Kazakhstan prominently displayed in the central field against an ornamental background. A bilingual legend encircles the arms, reading ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ in Kazakh above and РЕСПУБЛИКА КАЗАХСТАН in Russian below. The upper field bears the inscription В. ТВЕРДОХЛЕБОВ and Ы. АЛТЫНСАРИН alongside the logotype of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The lower field carries the denomination 500 ТЕҢГЕ, the date 2017, and the metallic specification Ag 925 31.1 g. denoting the silver content, fineness, and mass of the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ybrai Altynsarin was a 19th-century Kazakh educator and writer who created the first Kazakh-language primer using a Cyrillic-based alphabet, breaking from the Arabic script then standard across the steppe. His schools, built among nomadic communities in the 1860s and 1870s under Russian imperial administration, were the first secular institutions many Kazakhs had encountered. The National Bank has issued several coins in this commemorative education series, each honoring a figure whose influence shaped Kazakh intellectual identity before Soviet cultural policy absorbed and reframed that same legacy.