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20 Yeni Lira Anatolian Leopard
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2005 - Proof - 855 |
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Turkey's "Yeni" (New) Lira redenomination took effect on January 1, 2005, dropping six zeros from the old currency after decades of chronic inflation had rendered the lira nearly worthless in small denominations — the previous 10,000,000 lira became 10 yeni lira overnight. This coin belongs to the first year of that redenomination, making "Yeni" itself a historically short-lived label; it was quietly dropped in 2009 once the reform was considered sufficiently embedded in public understanding.
The Anatolian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana) was, by 2005, functionally extinct in Turkey, with the last confirmed wild sighting dating to 1974.