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50 Tenge Makhambet Otemisuly
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 50 Tenge |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse lettering | МАХАМБЕТ 200 2003 (Translation: Makhambet [200th anniversary]) |
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Makhambet Otemisuly was a Kazakh poet and warrior who led an armed uprising alongside Khan Zhangir's rival Isatay Taimanov against Russian imperial encroachment in the 1836–1838 Bukei Horde rebellion. The revolt was crushed, Taimanov killed at the Battle of Ak Bulak in 1838, and Makhambet spent years as a fugitive before being assassinated in 1846 — the circumstances of which remain disputed, with some accounts implicating Russian-aligned Kazakh factions.
Kazakhstan's commemorative 50 Tenge series of the early 2000s rehabilitated figures like Makhambet who had been selectively interpreted under Soviet historiography.