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20 Lira Traditional Turkish Handcrafts
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Weight | 23.33 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Turkey's commemorative bronze program of the 2000s was largely driven by UNESCO recognition campaigns and domestic cultural preservation efforts pushed through the Ministry of Culture. The 2010 handcrafts series specifically coincided with ongoing lobbying to have traditional Anatolian craft practices inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list — a process that had already secured recognition for Meddahlık storytelling in 2008 and Sema ceremonies in 2008.
Bronze at this weight and diameter was a deliberate choice for collector-grade issues of this period, keeping production costs low enough to sustain a wide thematic program across multiple years.