Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
3 000 000 Lira Atatürk with Children
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Proof |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse features the numeral '75' prominently rendered in the center-left field, its form ingeniously incorporating the Turkish crescent and star emblem, symbolizing the 75th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey. The date range '1923-1998' appears in the upper field as a curved legend. Below the central device, the inscriptions 'TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ'NİN YETMİŞBEŞ YILI' and the denomination '3.000.000 LİRA' are arranged in two lines across the lower field, flanked on either side by olive branches rendered in high relief against the mirror-polished proof field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1998 - Proof |
| Additional information |
Turkey's 1990s commemorative silver program was prolific to the point of market saturation, but the "Atatürk with Children" subject draws from a specific and well-documented episode: the annual April 23rd Children's Day, itself established by Atatürk in 1923 as the world's first national holiday dedicated to children. The denomination — three million lira — reflects the chronic inflation that plagued Turkey through the late 1990s, when annual rates regularly exceeded 80 percent and face values on commemoratives had become essentially fictive.