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1 500 000 Lira Myra'li Aziz Noel Baba and Euro
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | TURKIYE CUMHURIYETI 1.500 000 LIRA 1997 (Translation: Republic of Turkey) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued the year Turkey was formally confirmed as a candidate for EU accession negotiations, this coin pairs the ancient Lycian city of Myra — where the historical Nicholas of Myra served as bishop in the 4th century — with an explicit euro symbol, a gesture of westward orientation that aged awkwardly given Turkey's still-unresolved accession status nearly three decades later. Nicholas's connection to Myra is the actual biographical root of the Santa Claus tradition, a fact often buried under centuries of Dutch and American commercial reinvention.