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7 500 000 Lira Mimar Sinan
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Prominent bearded bust of the renowned Ottoman chief architect Mimar Koca Sinan, depicted facing slightly left and wearing a large Ottoman turban, occupying the central and right portion of the field. To the left of the portrait, a detailed architectural vignette depicts an arched arcade with muqarnas decoration, referencing Sinan's celebrated mosque designs. To the right, a silhouette of a domed mosque with two minarets is visible in the background field. The legend MİMAR KOCA SİNAN runs along the upper left rim, with the birth and death years 1490 and 1588 flanking the name along the lower arc. |
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This piece belongs to a long-running Turkish commemorative program that leaned heavily on Ottoman architectural heritage during the late 1990s and early 2000s — a period when the lira's catastrophic devaluation meant denominations in the millions were routine for everyday transactions, let alone collector issues. Mimar Sinan, chief Ottoman architect under Süleyman I, designed over 300 structures, of which the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne is generally considered his own acknowledged masterpiece, completed when he was in his eighties.
Turkey's 2001 economic crisis, which hit the same year this was struck, effectively ended the million-lira denomination era — the currency was redenominated in 2005, dropping six zeros entirely.