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3 000 000 Lira Maiden's Tower
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 3 000 000 Lira (3 000 000 TRL) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Maiden's Tower — Kız Kulesi in Turkish — sits on a small islet at the mouth of the Bosphorus and has accumulated roughly two thousand years of competing ownership claims, from Byzantine customs post to Ottoman lighthouse to a quarantine station during the 19th century. This 1997 issue belongs to a period when Turkey's chronic inflation had rendered lira denominations nearly abstract; three million lira was a practical face value for a gold coin only because the currency had already shed most of its purchasing power through the decade's persistent monetary instability.