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5000 Tenge Silk Road
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1995-2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Kazakhstan's early commemorative gold program launched in the mid-1990s partly as a nation-building exercise — the country had only established its own currency, the tenge, in November 1993, less than two years before this series began. The Silk Road issue drew on the historical reality that Kazakh steppe territory sat across multiple major caravan routes connecting Tang Dynasty China to the medieval Islamic world, with cities like Taraz and Otrar functioning as significant trading nodes.
The extended date range of 1995–2009 suggests periodic restrike production rather than a single campaign — a common practice for the NBK's early gold issues.