Tajikistan declared independence from the Soviet Union in September 1991, but the years that followed were immediately consumed by a civil war lasting until 1997 — making the country's 20th independence anniversary in 2011, when this coin was issued, the first generation to have grown up entirely outside Soviet governance.
Tajikistan declared independence from the Soviet Union in September 1991, but the years that followed were immediately consumed by a civil war lasting until 1997 — making the country's 20th independence anniversary in 2011, when this coin was issued, the first generation to have grown up entirely outside Soviet governance.