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500 Lira World Cup
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a dynamic figure of a football player executing a high kick, rendered in bold relief against a plain field. A stylised FIFA World Cup emblem — consisting of a football atop a pair of goalposts — appears to the left of the player. A small Turkish crescent-and-star emblem is incused on the player's jersey. The circular legend reads 'DÜNYA FUTBOL ŞAMPİYONASI' along the upper arc and 'İSPANYA 1982' along the lower right, with two decorative dots separating the inscriptions. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkey issued this coin to commemorate the 1982 FIFA World Cup held in Spain — one of a wave of silver issues produced by nations with no particular connection to the tournament, capitalizing on collector demand rather than any footballing distinction. Turkey had not qualified for the competition.
KM#953 was struck for export sale through government channels, not domestic circulation.