20 Lira European Huns

Part of the Turkish Mint's ongoing "Civilizations of Anatolia and Thrace" series, this issue addresses the Huns as a people whose westward migrations in the late 4th century AD destabilized the Gothic confederacies along the Danube and set off a chain of displacement that ultimately accelerated the fragmentation of the Western Roman Empire. Whether the Huns themselves had any sustained presence in Anatolia proper is debatable — the series title stretches geography to include steppe peoples who shaped the region's history from a distance.

The Turkish Mint has issued this silver collector series in limited annual runs, generally under 3,000 pieces per subject.