Kazakhstan 100 Tenge

[Bimat]

This is one of my favorite bimetallic..It is difficult to find bimetallics of countries like Kazakhstan (In India at-least).
This one is dated 2002,but there are other dates also,if I am not wrong..

Aditya

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I like those blow-ups. Without this one I still wouldn't have known that there are two Pegasuses (sp?) on this coin. That was a popular device in the thirties, but I can't remember another coin with a pair of flying horsies...

Peter

[Coinsforever]

I got with help of friends this 100 KZT Bimetallic coin of 2005. ( At face  )


More discussion here reply #7 to #9


Will try to upload better photo later.


Cheers

[Coinsforever]

Yes got 2nd coin from circulation.


Cheers

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Ten years later and two new types of 100 tenge coins plucked from circulation by a member of the Uzbek branch of my family. Technical specs are the same as the previous 100 tenge coin. The coins are weakly struck. Even when practically new they show weak spots. It does save cost of dies, though.

The letters QUB stand for Qazaqstan Ulttıq Banki - National Bank of Kazakstan.

Numista --

Peter

[mkm1968]

These two coins are from two different series - "Saka style" and "Treasures of the steppe"

[mkm1968]

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I am not fond of long series and commemoratives that commemorate nothing in particular, but evidently, these are at least circulating. I find the denomination interesting. An obvious link with деньги, and also, but less obvious, with denga (½ kopeck czarist Russian coin), denning (Danish coin of 1619) as well as the tankah (Mongol), tangka (Tibetan), taka (Bangladeshi) and tanga (Portuguese India) family.

Kazakstan is too much to the North for the principal streams of the silk route, but it is well situated for the trek of the first Juchids from Mongolia to Moscow and the Baltics. That may bring in some of the art shown on this series.

Peter

[mkm1968]

As far as I understand, the "Treasures of the Steppe" series of this denomination consists of five coins. They depict museum exhibits under the generally accepted name - "Scythian gold".

modof.club/aksessuari/ukrashiniya/44140-zverinyj-stil-zolotye-ukrashenija-52-foto.html

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Great link! English version.

Confusingly, Scythians refers to the tribe fighting against Alexander the Great (the only time he suffered a loss on the battlefield), while in medieval times, the same tribe is usually called Saka.

Peter