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20 Lira Artuqids
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a finely detailed relief depiction of the historic Malabadi Bridge (Diyarbakır Malabadi Köprüsü), a medieval stone arch bridge spanning a river rendered with engraved rippling water below. The bridge's massive pointed central arch flanked by smaller subsidiary arches is faithfully reproduced, with a small tower visible at the upper left. The date 2020 appears in the lower field beneath the bridge, along with the Turkish State Mint mark. The circular legend reads 'TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ' on the left and 'REPUBLIC OF TURKEY' on the right, separated at the top by the Turkish crescent and star emblem, while the denomination '20 TÜRK LİRASI' is inscribed along the lower border. |
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| Mintage | 2020 - Proof - 3,000 |
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The Artuqids were a Turkmen dynasty that controlled parts of southeastern Anatolia and the Jazira from the late eleventh century into the fifteenth, and they are numismatically notable for producing some of the most iconographically unusual coins in the medieval Islamic world — large bronze dirhams bearing figural imagery drawn from Byzantine, Syriac Christian, and ancient sources at a time when such representation was largely absent from Islamic coinage elsewhere. The Turkish Mint's 2020 issue belongs to a broader commemorative series celebrating Anatolian dynasties that preceded the Ottoman consolidation.