5 Lira large type, crescent to left

Turkey's shift to acmonital for this denomination in the mid-1970s was driven by chronic metal shortages and rampant inflation that made higher-intrinsic-value alloys economically untenable. The "crescent to left" designation distinguishes this from a parallel issue where the crescent orientation differs — a die alignment variation significant enough to warrant separate catalog listings, though both circulated simultaneously without any official distinction.