Double-Leaf Floral Motif & Turkmenbashy 1 Tennesi Turkmenistan Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry (Human Endurance) (Growth) (Niyazov) (1993)

Double-Leaf Floral Motif & Turkmenbashy 1 Tennesi Turkmenistan Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry and Craft Making (Human Endurance) (Human Growth) (Saparmurat Niyazov) (1993)

Reverse: Value in center of floral folk art design within circle
Lettering: TÜRKMENISTANYÑ TEÑÑESI 1
1993
Translation: Turkmenistan tenge

Obverse: The left profile of President Saparmurat Niyazov (1991-2006).
Lettering: TÜRKMENISTANYÑ PREZIDENTI
SAPARMYRAT NYҰAZOW
Translation: Turkmenistan President
Saparmurat Niyazov

Features
Issuer Turkmenistan
Period Republic (1991-date)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1993
Value 1 Teňňe (0.01 TMM)
Currency Manat (1993-2009)
Composition Copper plated steel
Weight 1.9 g
Diameter 16 mm
Thickness 1.42 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 12-31-2009
Number N# 4232
References KM# 1, Schön# 2

Metropolitan Museum:
"Decoration of double-leaf designs is a motif symbolizing the growth and endurance of human existence."
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/455361

"The double leaf and two-leafed flower motifs are connected to the growth of human existence, and are part of a long-established decorative tradition."
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/turk/hd_turk.htm

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Wikipedia:
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, 19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006), also known as Turkmenbashy (Turkmen: Türkmenbaşy), was a Turkmen politician who ruled Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was First Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 and supported the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. He continued to rule Turkmenistan for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Turkmen media referred to him using the title His "Excellency Saparmurat Turkmenbashy, President of Turkmenistan and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers". His self-given title Turkmenbashy, meaning Head of the Turkmen, referred to his position as the founder and president of the Association of Turkmens of the World. In 1999, the Assembly of Turkmenistan declared Niyazov President for Life of Turkmenistan.

In his time, he was one of the world's most totalitarian, despotic and repressive dictators. He promoted a cult of personality around himself and imposed his personal eccentricities upon the country, such as renaming Turkmen months and days of the week to references of his autobiography the Ruhnama. He made it mandatory to read the Ruhnama in schools, universities and governmental organizations, new governmental employees were tested on the book at job interviews and an exam on its teachings was a part of the driving test in Turkmenistan. In 2005, he closed down all rural libraries and hospitals outside of the capital city Ashgabat, in a country where at that time more than half the population lived in rural areas, once stating that, "If people are ill, they can come to Ashgabat." Under his rule, Turkmenistan had the lowest life expectancy in Central Asia. Global Witness, a London-based human rights organisation, reported that money under Niyazov's control and held overseas may be in excess of US$3 billion, of which between $1.8–$2.6 billion was allegedly situated in the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund at Deutsche Bank in Germany.