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50 Lira Sagalassos
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays a detailed relief depiction of an ancient Roman architectural facade, identified as the Antonine Fountain of Sagalassos, rendered with multiple decorative horizontal registers incorporating foliate friezes, relief figures, and ornamental motifs. The date 2013 appears in the lower central portion of the design. The bilateral legend around the periphery reads 'TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ' to the left and 'REPUBLIC OF TURKEY' to the right, with the Turkish star-and-crescent emblem positioned at the top. The denomination '50 Türk Lirası' is inscribed along the lower border between two separating dots. |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a highly detailed relief representation of the partially reconstructed Antonine Fountain (Nymphaeum) of Sagalassos, depicting a grand colonnaded facade with Corinthian columns, arched niches, and tiered stone steps in the foreground, stretching across the full width of the field. The upper left portion of the design shows a closer architectural detail of the ornate pediment and column capitals. The name 'SAGALASSOS' is inscribed in a distinctive stylized lettering along the upper field, and the inscription 'ANTONİNLER ÇEŞMESİ' appears in the central right area of the field, identifying the monument. |
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Sagalassos, a Pisidian city in the Taurus Mountains of southwestern Turkey, became one of the most extensively excavated sites in the ancient world following the launch of a Belgian-led dig in 1990. By 2013, that project had been running for over two decades and produced an almost unbroken stratigraphic record from Hellenistic through Byzantine periods — the coin's release tracks directly with continued international academic attention to the site rather than any political or monetary event.