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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 5171143, member: 77639"]Nice coins! The Kazakhstan mint is one of the best in the world but gets little attention in the West. It was started when the USSR broke up. It mints coins for its own country and some of the other “Stans” (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc.) and Belarus. It’s a well-run, complete mint doing design, engraving, production and distribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world in terms of area and the largest landlocked. It still has Russia’s space launch facility at Baikonur. Since the demise of the space shuttle in 2011, all manned flights to the space station launched from Baikonur.</p><p><br /></p><p>It and several other “Stans” are in the process of switching their alphabets from Cyrillic to Latin. The Latin alphabet is better suited to Turkic languages than Cyrillic or Arabic. Turkey switched from Arabic to Latin in the 20th century. The Latin alphabet also promotes economic, political and social interaction with the West.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the coins of the “Stans”, many have inscriptions in Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Probably the Cyrillic will disappear in a few years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 5171143, member: 77639"]Nice coins! The Kazakhstan mint is one of the best in the world but gets little attention in the West. It was started when the USSR broke up. It mints coins for its own country and some of the other “Stans” (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc.) and Belarus. It’s a well-run, complete mint doing design, engraving, production and distribution. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world in terms of area and the largest landlocked. It still has Russia’s space launch facility at Baikonur. Since the demise of the space shuttle in 2011, all manned flights to the space station launched from Baikonur. It and several other “Stans” are in the process of switching their alphabets from Cyrillic to Latin. The Latin alphabet is better suited to Turkic languages than Cyrillic or Arabic. Turkey switched from Arabic to Latin in the 20th century. The Latin alphabet also promotes economic, political and social interaction with the West. If you look at the coins of the “Stans”, many have inscriptions in Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Probably the Cyrillic will disappear in a few years. Cal[/QUOTE]
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