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Turkey's aluminium bronze coinage of this period reflects a pragmatic response to wartime metal constraints — the country maintained official neutrality throughout World War II but faced the same commodity pressures affecting every European economy. The alloy shift away from straight copper was a cost-driven decision made across multiple denominations simultaneously in the early 1940s.

KM#868 is a short-lived type, replaced as postwar economic stabilization allowed Turkey to rationalize its small-denomination coinage.