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20 Lira Van and Ağrı
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse description | The central field is divided by a sinuous horizon line into two panoramic registers: the upper register depicts Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı) rendered in fine relief with deeply striated slopes rising to a snow-capped volcanic cone, while the lower register presents a detailed bird's-eye view of İshak Paşa Sarayı, the celebrated 18th-century Ottoman-Persian palace complex in Doğubayazıt, with its domed mosque, minarets, and multi-tiered stone courtyard buildings set against a mountainous backdrop. The province name AĞRI and the inscription İSHAK PAŞA SARAYI appear in the upper field. The bilingual peripheral legend reads TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ to the left and REPUBLIC OF TURKEY to the right, separated by a crescent-and-star device at the top, with the denomination 20 Türk Lirası and the date 2014 inscribed along the lower border. The mint mark appears in the lower central field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of the Turkish Mint's ongoing provincial series, this issue commemorates Van and Ağrı — two eastern Anatolian provinces whose modern boundaries encompass some of the most archaeologically and geologically significant terrain in Turkey. Van was the seat of the Urartian kingdom from roughly the 9th century BC, and Lake Van itself is the largest soda lake in the world. Ağrı lends its name to the mountain the Turks call Ağrı Dağı — known internationally as Mount Ararat — which sits on the border with Armenia and Iran.