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50 Lira
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 1988-1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic, rendered in a plain, unadorned style with no inscription surrounding the portrait. The circular legend TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ (Republic of Turkey) arcs around the upper periphery of the field in Latin script. The portrait is set centrally within a plain rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ (Translation: REPUBLIC OF TURKEY) |
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Turkey's brass coinage of this period was a direct response to chronic inflation that rendered older cupro-nickel issues effectively worthless before their intended lifespans ended. The 50 Lira denomination, introduced in the late 1980s, was itself obsolete within a few years of its last striking — by the mid-1990s, inflation had eroded its purchasing power to a fraction of a US cent.
The switch to brass was partly economic: cheaper alloy costs at scale when minting enormous volumes of low-value coins for daily transactions. Turkey's Central Bank was issuing replacement coin series at an accelerating pace throughout this decade.