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50 Lira Traditional Turkish Handcrafts
| Issuer | Turkey State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Value | 50 Lira |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | At centre, a finely rendered relief of a traditional Turkish silver belt (Gümüş Kemer), depicting a wide woven-thread belt with an elaborate centrally-placed filigree clasp of lobed floral form, richly worked with scrolling arabesques and granulation in the Ottoman silversmithing tradition, from which three pendant tassels hang below. The circular legend along the upper periphery reads 'GELENEKSEL TÜRK EL SANATLARI' (Traditional Turkish Handicrafts). The inscription 'Gümüş Kemer' appears in the lower field beneath the central device, while the lower border carries the legend 'Takılar ve kullanım eşyaları' (Jewellery and utility objects), flanked by raised dots. |
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This piece belongs to Turkey's long-running Traditional Handcrafts series, which the Darphane launched in the early 2000s to document crafts under active threat of disappearing from practice — not merely as cultural nostalgia but partly in response to UNESCO's push for member states to inventory intangible cultural heritage ahead of the 2003 Convention's ratification.
Mintages in this series ran low by design, typically under 5,000 pieces.