1 000 000 Lira Hulusi Behcet

Hulusi Behçet identified the disease bearing his name in 1937 after years of observing a triad of symptoms — oral ulcers, genital ulcers, and uveitis — that had eluded consistent diagnosis across European medicine. Turkish authorities were notably aggressive in commemorating scientific figures through the high-inflation coinage of the 1990s, issuing silver million-lira pieces as collector items precisely because the denomination had become meaningless in daily commerce. By 1996, annual inflation in Turkey was running above 80 percent.