2 1/2 Lira FAO

Turkey's FAO coinage program ran through the 1970s under a broader UN Food and Agriculture Organization initiative encouraging member nations to mint coins with agricultural themes — the program was partly a propaganda exercise dressed as development policy. The 2½ Lira denomination itself was an odd survivor; by 1977 inflation had rendered it nearly worthless in daily commerce, so these pieces saw little genuine circulation despite being nominally current.