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10 000 000 Lira World Cup Third Place
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ DÜNYA FUTBOL ŞAMPİYONASI ÜÇÜNCÜ THIRD PLACE WORLD FOOTBALL CUP 10.000.000 LİRA 2002 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkey's third-place finish at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan was the country's best result since finishing third at the 1954 tournament in Switzerland — a 48-year gap that made the achievement genuinely significant rather than merely ceremonial. The commemorative program issued around the tournament reflects the broader inflation crisis that had plagued Turkey through the late 1990s and into 2002, when the lira had depreciated so catastrophically that a silver coin required a face value in the tens of millions just to register as currency.