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1 Kuruş Khazar Khanate
| Issuer | Republic of Turkey |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 1 Kuruş |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a waving flag of the Khazar Khaganate, bearing a symbol resembling a trident or tamga together with six stars arranged in an arc, rendered in a stylized linear engraving. The dates '651 - 983' appear in the exergue, denoting the historical period of the Khazar state. The circular legend reads '• BÜYÜK TÜRK DEVLETLERİ •' at the top and '• HAZAR İMPARATORLUĞU •' at the bottom, both in Latin script along the outer border. This coin is part of the Turkish State Mint's 'Great Turkish States' commemorative series. |
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This piece belongs to Turkey's "Anatolian Civilizations" commemorative series, which ran through the 2000s and 2010s and honored predecessor cultures on Turkish soil. The Khazar Khanate — a Turkic state that controlled the north Caucasus and lower Volga steppe roughly between the 7th and 10th centuries — had no meaningful geographic presence in Anatolia proper, making its inclusion in the series an assertion of broad Turkic cultural kinship rather than strict territorial history.
The Khazars are historically notable for the conversion of their ruling elite to Judaism, likely sometime in the 8th or 9th century — one of the very few instances of a ruling class adopting Judaism as a state religion.