Kazakhstan 2004 100 tenge Fr-4
This specimen was lot 75500 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $125. The catalog description[1] noted, "KAZAKHSTAN. 100 Tenge, 2004. NGC PROOF-69 Ultra Cameo. King Kroisos Treasure. Sharply struck with crisp design elements, the charming little minor gold coin offers frosted devices with hard mirrored fields. Free of tone, haze or fog." This is the first coin we have posted from this Central Asian country of twenty million people. This denomination has been used for silver and gold NCLT's since 1995. Other topics for 2004 include king Midas (KM 121), camel caravan (KM 122), Marco Polo (KM 188) and a circulating bimetallic coin (KM 39). As of January 2025, US$1 = 530 Kazakh tenge. Numista states that this coin was minted in Kazakhstan but all the legends are in English. Nursultan Nazarbayev was president of Kazakhstan 1991-2019.
Recorded mintage: 5,000.
Specification: 1.24 g, 0.999 fine gold, 13.9 mm diameter, 0.04 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Fr-4; KM-120.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.
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