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500 Manat Keymir Kor
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2001 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bust of Saparmurat Niyazov, first and lifelong President of Turkmenistan, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. The portrait is unadorned and shows the subject in civilian dress with a suit collar visible at the truncation. A circular legend in Latin script arcs around the upper periphery, with the name SAPARMYRAT NYÝAZOW appearing along the lower arc, flanked by two laurel sprigs at the base. |
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| Mintage | 2001 - Proof - 1,000 |
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Keymir Kor was an 18th-century Turkmen folk hero and poet whose resistance against Persian Qajar incursions made him a recurring figure in the national mythology that independent Turkmenistan worked aggressively to codify after 1991. This coin was issued under Saparmurat Niyazov — Turkmenbashi — whose government systematically elevated such figures into an official pantheon of Turkmen identity, culminating in the Ruhnama, the state spiritual guide published that same year.
The 2001 date places this squarely within Niyazov's most intensely nationalistic phase of commemorative coin policy.