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100 Som Millennium of Manas
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Som (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the Kyrgyz Republic occupies the central field, depicting a stylised white-winged eagle (the Ak-Shumkar) set against a rising sun with radiating rays above a panorama of mountain peaks. The heraldic device is encircled by a wreath of wheat and cotton. The Cyrillic legend КЫРГЫЗ РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ arcs around the upper periphery, while the date 1995 appears within a decorative cartouche at the base of the design. |
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| Reverse description | The legendary hero Manas (Айкөл Манас) is depicted in dynamic high relief astride a galloping horse, wearing traditional Kyrgyz armour and wielding a long spear, with a quiver of arrows visible at his back. Behind the equestrian figure, the numeral 1 forms a bold compositional element referencing the millennial anniversary. The Cyrillic legend АЙКӨЛ МАНАС curves along the upper border. The denomination 100 СОМ is inscribed in two lines at the lower centre of the field. The gold fineness and weight notation Au 999 / 6.22 appears in small characters to the lower left. |
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Manas is the central figure of an oral epic poem belonging to the Kyrgyz people — at roughly 500,000 lines, it is among the longest epic poems in recorded literary history, dwarfing both the Iliad and the Mahabharata. The 1995 issue marks what Kyrgyz scholars designated as the epic's thousandth anniversary, a date that is approximate at best, since the poem's origins are genuinely contested and likely predate any fixed point scholars can reliably pin down.
The Kyrgyz Republic had gained independence from the Soviet Union only four years earlier, and this coin was among the first gold issues the National Bank produced as a sovereign institution.