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3 000 000 Lira Republic and Youth
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | 1923-1998 75 TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ'NİN YETMİŞBEŞ YILI 3.000.000 LİRA |
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| Mint | Turkish State Mint (Darphane), Istanbul, Turkey (1926-date) |
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Turkey's catastrophic inflation of the 1990s provides the backdrop here — by 1998, the lira had deteriorated so severely that a face value of three million on a single coin was not hyperbole but arithmetic. The denomination reflects a currency in freefall; Turkey would eventually redenominate in 2005, knocking six zeros off the lira entirely.
KM#1072 is a commemorative proof issue from the Darphane's collector series, not a circulation piece — no three-million-lira coin ever passed through a market stall.