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5000 Lira World Youth Year
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A stylized, textured relief depicts the bust of a young woman rendered in a modern artistic style, her face and draped head rendered with a deliberately rough, sculptural surface treatment evoking youth and vitality. The date '1985' is inscribed vertically along the right side of the field. The legend 'DÜNYA GENÇLİK YILI' arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script, commemorating the United Nations International Youth Year. |
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| Mintage | 1985 - Proof - 1,000 |
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World Youth Year was a United Nations initiative for 1985, and Turkey was among the nations that issued commemorative coinage to mark it. The Turkish State Mint produced this piece during a period of significant political reconstruction — the country was operating under a constitution drafted in 1982 following the 1980 military coup, with civilian government only partially restored by the time of striking.
KM#978 is not scarce in absolute terms, but silver commemoratives of this period frequently went straight from mint sets into collector hands, leaving circulated examples genuinely harder to source than the mintage figures suggest.