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35 Yeni Lira Anıtkabir Building
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A detailed three-quarter perspective view of Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Ankara, dominates the central field, depicted with its characteristic colonnaded facade and monumental stepped entrance. The building is rendered in fine relief with precise architectural detail, conveying the neoclassical monumentality of the structure. The facsimile signature of Atatürk appears in the lower portion of the field beneath the mausoleum. The legend 'ANITKABİR 70.YIL' arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the mausoleum's groundbreaking. The design is struck against a highly polished proof field. |
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| Mintage | 2008 - Proof - 3,000 |
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Anıtkabir, Atatürk's mausoleum in Ankara, was completed in 1953 after a decade of construction involving architects Emin Onat and Orhan Arda, who won the design competition in 1942. The "Yeni Lira" designation — literally "New Lira" — was introduced in 2005 as part of a redenomination that dropped six zeros from the old Turkish lira, a direct consequence of chronic inflation that had reduced the currency to near-absurdity. By 2008, the "Yeni" prefix was itself being phased back out, making this a coin struck in the final months of that transitional monetary designation.