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40 Yeni Lira Ahmed Yesevi
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | New lira (2005-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed architectural rendering of the Mausoleum complex of Hoca Ahmed Yesevi (Ahmed Yesevi Külliyesi) in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, shown in a three-quarter frontal elevation. The structure features its characteristic large ribbed dome flanked by cylindrical minarets and massive brick walls with geometric tile ornamentation and an Arabic frieze inscription along the facade. The engraver's signature 'H.HOŞAFÇI' appears at lower centre beneath the building. The legend 'PİR-İ TÜRKİSTAN HOCA AHMED YESEVİ' arcs along the upper field, while 'AHMED YESEVİ KÜLLİYESİ' is inscribed in the lower field. |
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| Mintage | 2008 - Proof - 888 |
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Ahmed Yesevi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi poet whose shrine in Turkestan — now southern Kazakhstan — was rebuilt by Timur in the 1390s as a deliberate act of political legitimacy. Turkey's interest in commemorating him reflects the pan-Turkic cultural diplomacy that accelerated after 1991, when the dissolution of the Soviet Union reopened ties between Ankara and the Turkic republics of Central Asia.
The "Yeni Lira" denomination places this firmly in the 2005–2009 window, when Turkey had redenominated to shed six zeros from the lira following the catastrophic inflation of the preceding decades.