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500 Lira Jalaladdin Rumi
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Weight | 8 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 705. VUSLAT YILI ANISI 500 LİRA |
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Issued the year before the 700th anniversary of Rumi's death — he died in Konya in 1273 — this piece was part of Turkey's broader commemorative gold program of the late 1970s, a period when the country was experiencing severe political instability and near-weekly government changes. The timing was deliberate: secular Turkey invoking a 13th-century Sufi mystic as cultural patrimony, a move with its own complicated politics given ongoing tensions between the secular state and religious identity.