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250 Kuruş
| Issuer | Republic of Turkey Mint |
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| Year | 1926-1929 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1926 - ١٩٢٦ - 1927 - ١٩٢٧ - 886 1928 - ١٩٢٨ - 1929 - ١٩٢٩ - |
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Turkey's gold coinage of 1926–1929 was minted under the newly established Republic, which had abolished the Ottoman sultanate just three years earlier in 1923. Atatürk's government needed a credible national currency to signal fiscal modernity to European powers and attract foreign investment — gold coinage at high fineness was a deliberate political instrument, not merely a monetary one.
KM#843 corresponds to the first standardized Republican gold series, struck at Istanbul. The brief four-year window closed as Turkey shifted economic priorities ahead of the Great Depression.