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5 Manat Asian Martial Arts Games
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Soltan Sanjar Türkmen at right, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in brown, gold, and green tones. At centre, the Coat of Arms of Turkmenistan within a starred octagonal vignette, flanked by a colour map of Turkmenistan at lower centre and the logo of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games — Ashgabat 2017 at left. The denomination numeral '5' appears at upper left and lower right, with the issuer's name and legal tender clause inscribed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Welotrek Sport Toplumy (Velodrome sports complex) in Aşgabat, rendered in blue-grey tones against a pale guilloche background with geometric underprint in green and gold. The denomination numeral '5' appears at lower right in brown, with a crescent moon and five five-pointed stars in orange at upper right. A horizontal band of traditional Turkmen carpet ornamentation in brown and gold runs along the lower portion, bearing the denomination inscription 'BÄŞ MANAT' at centre. |
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Issued to mark the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, held in Ashgabat in September 2017 — the first time Turkmenistan hosted a major multi-sport event of that scale. The government treated the games as a prestige project on an extraordinary scale, constructing an entirely new Olympic village complex outside the capital at reported cost exceeding five billion dollars. A commemorative banknote was an almost inevitable piece of that promotional machinery.
De La Rue's involvement is unsurprising; they have handled Turkmenistan's currency printing since the manat's redenomination in 2009.