From 22 till 24 September 2016 Moscow hosted the Seventh International Conference and Exhibition COINS-2016. National and commercial banks, world largest mints, coin distributors, auction houses, numismatic stores displayed their products at the show.
National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, a traditional exhibitor of, sold 175 gold and silver coins at its booth. They say that the biggest interest was caused by coin series ‘Red Book of Kyrgystan’, ‘Monuments of history and architecture of Kyrgystan’, ‘The Epoch of the Kyrgyz Kaganate’ and ‘Historical Events’.
‘In 2 days of the COINS exhibition we sold the record number of coins — 175!’, – stated at the official website of the bank.
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A month after COINS-2016 National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic made collectors happy with an octagonal coin which is most likely to be exhibited at COINS-2017. It is dedicated to a millenium from the birth of the founder of the Turkic poetry Zhusup Balasagyn, whose portrait is depicted on the Kyrgyz banknote 1000 som.