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7 500 000 Lira Bearded vulture

Issuer Turkish State Mint (Darphane)
Year 2001
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Composition Silver (.925)
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Obverse lettering TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ 7.500.000 LİRA 2001
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Turkey's 7,500,000 lira denomination reflects the staggering inflation that had consumed the Turkish economy through the 1990s — by 2001, annual inflation had repeatedly exceeded 60%, and the lira had lost so much value that everyday transactions required denominations once unthinkable. The currency was eventually redenominated in 2005, with one New Turkish Lira replacing one million old lira, effectively erasing this coin's face value from the monetary record entirely.

The bearded vulture — Gypaetus barbatus — was already critically scarce in Anatolia when this coin was issued, making it a natural subject for Turkey's wildlife conservation series.

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