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500 Manat Muhammet Bayram Khan
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing truncated bust effigy of President Saparmurat Niyazov set within a polished mirror field. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a proof finish. A circular legend in Latin script runs along the upper periphery, with the president's name appearing along the lower arc, flanked on either side by a small laurel spray at the base of the design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Muhammet Bayram Khan was the 16th-century poet and grand vizier who served as guardian and chief adviser to the young Mughal emperor Akbar — a Turkic figure the post-Soviet Turkmen state actively claimed as part of its national heritage project under Saparmurat Niyazov. This coin belongs to a larger commemorative series Niyazov commissioned in the late 1990s and early 2000s to construct a usable pantheon of Turkmen historical identity, drawing on figures spanning centuries and geographies.
Bayram Khan was assassinated in 1561 by an Afghan nobleman at Patan, Gujarat — far from any land that would become Turkmenistan.