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50 Tyin
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 50 Tyin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Kazakhstan occupies the central field, featuring two mythical winged horses (tulpars) facing inward and flanking a central ornamental sunburst medallion bearing crossed arrows and a shanyrak (the crown of a yurt) above the word ҚАЗАҚСТАН in Latin script. The design is rendered in high relief with fine decorative detail. A circular legend in Cyrillic script reads ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ (Republic of Kazakhstan), separated by small decorative dots, running along the upper and lower periphery of the coin. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '50' dominates the central field, set within a multi-pointed geometric star-shaped frame composed of nested angular borders with traditional Kazakh ornamental motifs at each point. Below the numeral, the denomination ТИЫН is inscribed in Cyrillic script. The mint initials ҚҰБ appear to the right of the numeral. The date 1993 is divided by the lower point of the star frame, with '19' to the left and '93' to the right. |
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Kazakhstan declared independence in December 1991, but the new republic continued using Soviet rubles for nearly two years while its monetary infrastructure was built from scratch. The tyin — subdivisions of the newly created tenge — was introduced in November 1993 alongside the tenge itself, replacing the ruble in a rapid, tightly controlled currency swap that gave citizens just three days to exchange their holdings.
The brass composition was a practical choice for a state that had just inherited Soviet-era minting capacity and needed to produce an entirely new coinage series quickly and cheaply.