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20 Lira Ahmad Yasawi
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Portrait of the Sufi scholar and poet Khoja Ahmed Yasawi depicted in three-quarter view, robed and turbaned, with a long beard, rendered in finely detailed high relief against a plain field. An arched architectural element, referencing the entrance of his mausoleum, frames the figure in the background, lending the composition a monumental and reverential character. The curved legend 'HOCA AHMED YESEVİ'NİN ÖLÜMÜNÜN 850. YILI' (850th Anniversary of the Death of Ahmed Yasawi) encircles the design along the upper and lateral rim. |
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Ahmad Yasawi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi poet and mystic whose mausoleum in Turkestan — now southern Kazakhstan — was commissioned by Timur in the 1390s as one of the largest funerary structures in Central Asia. Turkey's sustained interest in commemorating him reflects the broader Turkic cultural diplomacy that intensified after Soviet collapse opened Central Asia to outside engagement. This coin is part of a Turkish Mint series honoring figures central to Turkic and Islamic heritage across a geography well beyond Turkey's own borders.