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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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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a large stylised numeral '75' integrated with the Turkish crescent and star symbol, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. The date range '1923-1998' is inscribed in the upper field. Below the central emblem, two olive or laurel branches flank the denomination '3.000.000 LIRA' in the lower field. The legend 'TURKIYE CUMHURIYETININ YETMISBES YILI' arcs across the middle field in two lines, with a small mint mark at centre. |
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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.