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2016 Kazahstan 100 tenge - The Legend of Tangun.


Tangun is the mythological first king of the Koreans. He was the grandson of Hwanin, the creator, and the son of Hwanung, who fathered the child by breathing on a beautiful young woman. Tangun reportedly became king in 2333 bc.

Legends about Tangun differ in detail. According to one account, Hwanung left heaven to rule Earth from atop Mt. Taebaek. When a bear and a tiger expressed a wish to become human beings, he ordered the beasts into a cave for 100 days and gave orders that they were to eat only mugwort and garlic and to avoid the sunlight. The tiger soon grew impatient and left the cave, but the bear remained and after three weeks was transformed into a beautiful woman. It was she who became the mother of Tangun.

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During the age of Napoleon, the mythology of ancient Egypt became a serious scientific field in Europe. The Rosetta stone was found in the desert, the Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered and the study of monuments started. The scientific study of ancient Egypt by 200 scholars that accpmpanied Napoleon on his military campaign was a great achievement. The military campaign (1798/99) was a failure.

A well known quote from general Bonaparte, just before a battle against the mameluk army near the Gizeh piramides as he addressed his soldiers was: « Soldats, songez que du haut de ces monuments, quarante siècles vous contemplent »
"Soldiers, know that from the heights of these monuments, forty centuries contemplate you"

This quote and Napoleon with his troops near Gizeh was used for a medal by engraver Bovy (weight ± one ounce); the piece was struck around 1850, like the English Pyramid copper I posted this week.

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