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500 Tenge Year of the Rooster
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Tenge (1993-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central field presents a rooster in high relief, symbolizing the year 2017 in the Oriental calendar, accompanied by the logo of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Eleven additional zodiac symbols of the Oriental calendar are arranged within the inner border. A wide matted periphery bears incuse legends in three languages arranged circumferentially: 'ШЫҒЫС КҮНТІЗБЕСI' in Kazakh, 'ВОСТОЧНЫЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ' in Russian, and 'ORIENTAL CALENDAR' in English, along with the date '2017'. |
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Kazakhstan's lunar series coins are struck at the Kazakhstan Mint in Ust-Kamenogorsk, one of the few sovereign mints in Central Asia capable of producing fine gold collector issues to .9999 purity. The 2017 Rooster issue corresponds to the Kazakh celebration of Nauryz, the Persian new year observed across Central Asia on the spring equinox — a holiday that was banned under Soviet rule and only formally reinstated in Kazakhstan in 1988.