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20 Lira Archimedes
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ARŞİMET |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkey has issued a series of silver coins honoring figures from the ancient world, and Archimedes — born in Syracuse, a Greek colony in Sicily, around 287 BC — fits squarely into that tradition of claiming broad Mediterranean heritage. His famous displacement principle reportedly came to him in a public bath in Syracuse, prompting an exit memorable enough to survive two millennia of retelling.
The 31.1g weight places this squarely in the one-troy-ounce bullion format, though Turkey markets it as a collector piece rather than a bullion vehicle.