MANAT: COIN OF TURKMENISTAN
1 manat, 2010: Turkmenistan
TÜRKMENISTANYŇ MERKEZI BANKY: Central Bank of Turkmenistan.
1 MANAT.
GARAŞSYZ BITARAP TÜRKMENISTAN: Independent Neutral Turkmenistan.
The "Independence Monument" (is located in Ashgabat — the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan) superimposed over the map of Turkmenistan.
Popular ornaments from Turkmen traditional carpets.
Inscription on the edge of coin: BIR MANAT (one manat).
Royal Mint (Llantrisant, United Kingdom).
- Bimetallic — copper-nickel centre in brass ring: 27 mm - 9.5 g
- Reference price: 2$
COIN MANAT — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
About the name of the coin manat: the name of the Turkmen and Azerbaijani currencies comes from the Persian term "munāt", which historically denoted the Russian silver ruble (possibly, from the Russian "монета" /moneta = coin/).
By the way, during the years when Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan were part of the USSR, the Soviet ruble in these countries was semi-officially called the manat (even on Soviet banknotes, the denomination was indicated as "manat" in addition to "ruble" along with other national names).
