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20 Lira Beçin
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 20 Lira |
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| Reverse description | Panoramic view of Beçin Castle (Beçin Kalesi), depicted as a broad stone fortification wall with crenellated battlements extending across the lower half of the field, a flagpole bearing the Turkish crescent-and-star flag rising prominently from the wall's center, and a tower visible to the right. The foreground features sparse vegetation rendered in fine relief, while the upper field is rendered as a deeply mirrored dark sky. The legend 'BEÇİN' appears in large letters along the upper border, with 'BEÇİN KALESİ' inscribed in smaller characters across the mid-field above the fortification. |
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| Reverse lettering | BEÇİN BEÇİN KALESİ (Translation: Becin castle) |
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Beçin is a ruined medieval Anatolian town near Milas in Muğla province, once the capital of the Menteşe beylik before Ottoman absorption in the early 15th century. The Turkish Mint's ongoing series commemorating historic Anatolian settlements has drawn on archaeological sites that remain largely unexcavated, Beçin among them — excavation work by Ankara University has been intermittent since the 1970s. The beylik itself controlled critical Aegean coastal trade routes and maintained diplomatic contact with the Knights of Rhodes, a political inconvenience the Ottomans eventually resolved by force.