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5000 Tenge Aiy
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold composition combining naturalistic and stenciled imagery of a bear (Kazakh: AIÝ), rendered in fine detail against the coin's field. The inscription AIÝ appears prominently at the top of the design. A wide decorative border runs along the full perimeter of the coin, featuring ornamental elements consistent with Kazakh artistic traditions. |
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| Mintage | 2024 - Proof - 200 |
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Kazakhstan's large-format collector silver program has produced some genuinely unusual pieces, and this one is notable less for its scale than for its subject. Aiy is a figure from Kazakh mythology associated with the moon and feminine spiritual energy — not a deity canonized through any single literary source, but one drawn from the oral tradition of the steppe, where such figures existed in regional variation rather than fixed form. The diamond insert, rather than functioning as mere spectacle, corresponds directly to a celestial motif that would be thematically hollow without it.