Description
Face value: 500 tenge
Bicolour (compound) coin circle-shaped is consisted of a ring and a disk. Inner disk is made of tantalum, external ring is made of silver.
Averse: the composition, which symbolizes the unity of a man and the universe, bonds of past and present; the fact value of the coin «500 TENGE»; two legends «REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN» in Kazakh and English.
Reverse: image U.A. Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, 2011 is 50th anniversary of his space flight, image of orbital spacecraft on near-earth orbit, numbers “1961-2011” meaning the year of first man space flight and the year of coinage, name of the coin in Kazakh and in Russian «FIRST COSMONAUT» divided by signature of U.A. Gagarin.
Lateral surface is grooved.
Weight 41,4 gr.
Fineness: 925 Ag, 14,6 gr. and Ta, 38,61 gr
Quality: proof
Mintage: 5 000.
The coin comes in capsule with certificate of authencity (COA) and in original box.