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10 000 000 Lira Mevlâna Celâleddin-i Rumi
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2002 - Proof |
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Turkey's inflation in the late 1990s and early 2000s had grown so catastrophic that the lira required denominations in the tens of millions for everyday transactions — making a 10,000,000 lira face value functionally modest rather than commemorative in scale. The redenomination that followed in 2005 wiped six zeroes from the currency, replacing the old lira at a rate of 1,000,000 to one.
Mevlâna Celâleddin-i Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi mystic and poet born in Balkh, spent much of his life in Konya, where his shrine remains Turkey's most-visited cultural site. His inclusion on a state mint issue reflects the Turkish government's long-running effort to anchor national identity to Anatolian heritage rather than purely Ottoman or republican symbolism.