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50 Lira Turkish National Movement
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 50 Lira |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a large stylized numeral '90' dominating the upper field, incorporating a crescent and star within the design, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Turkish National Movement. A small equestrian figure of Atatürk on horseback is depicted in silhouette within the bowl of the numeral '9'. The legend 'SAMSUN' appears in bold letters across the lower centre, with the date range '1919-2009' inscribed below in the exergue. The inscription '.yıl' follows the numeral '90' to indicate 'year' in Turkish. The composition references Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's landing at Samsun on 19 May 1919, which initiated the Turkish War of Independence. |
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| Mint | (D) Turkish State Mint (Darphane),Istanbul, Turkey (1926-date) |
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This piece belongs to a long-running Turkish commemorative program documenting the 1919–1923 War of Independence, issued in the years leading up to the Republic's centennial. The series draws heavily on archival imagery tied to Mustafa Kemal's Anatolian campaigns, the Samsun landing of May 1919, and the successive military victories that effectively dismantled the Treaty of Sèvres before it could be enforced.
KM#1247 is one of several 2009 entries in the sequence — Darphane issued multiple designs that year under the same technical specifications.