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1 000 000 Lira Elwesii Flowers
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 31.46 g |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKIYE CUMHURIYETI 1.000.000 LIRA 1996 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkey's million-lira face value coins of the mid-1990s reflect the country's prolonged inflation crisis, which by 1996 had been running at triple-digit annual rates for over a decade. The denomination sounds absurd but was a bureaucratic acknowledgment of reality — the lira had lost so much ground that even collector-issue face values required six zeros to register as nominally meaningful.
The Elwesii in question is Galanthus elwesii, the giant snowdrop identified by Henry John Elwes in western Turkey in the 1870s. Turkey issued a number of silver pieces in this period under WWF-affiliated conservation programs.