Turkey's FAO coinage series ran through the 1970s as part of a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization initiative that enlisted dozens of nations to mint commemorative issues promoting agricultural development. The 1978 150 Lira falls near the end of that program, by which point Turkish silver issues were already becoming complicated by the country's severe foreign exchange crisis and IMF negotiations that dominated the late 1970s economy.
The two KM variants — 918.1 and 918.2 — differ in edge lettering.
Turkey's FAO coinage series ran through the 1970s as part of a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization initiative that enlisted dozens of nations to mint commemorative issues promoting agricultural development. The 1978 150 Lira falls near the end of that program, by which point Turkish silver issues were already becoming complicated by the country's severe foreign exchange crisis and IMF negotiations that dominated the late 1970s economy.
The two KM variants — 918.1 and 918.2 — differ in edge lettering.