500 Tenge Year of the Wild Boar, Silver

Kazakhstan's lunar series draws on the Chinese calendar cycle that has been observed across Central Asia since the Mongol period, when the twelve-animal system became deeply embedded in steppe timekeeping and administrative record. The 2019 wild boar issue is one of the more straightforward entries in the National Bank's collector program — competently struck at the Kazakh Mint in Ust-Kamenogorsk, which has produced the bulk of the country's commemorative silver since the mid-1990s.