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7 500 000 Lira Orchis anatolica
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2002 - Proof - 1,342 |
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Turkey's 7,500,000 lira denomination reflects the grotesque inflation that plagued the country through the 1990s — by 2002, the lira had lost so much value that even commemorative coins required seven-digit face values to carry any nominal worth. The redenomination that followed in 2005 wiped six zeros from the currency entirely, making issues like this one transitional artifacts of the old system.
The Orchis anatolica subject belongs to a native wildflower series issued in the early 2000s, part of a broader Turkish push to document endemic Anatolian flora on official coinage before the currency reform closed that chapter definitively.