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7 500 000 Lira Pygmy cormorant
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1125 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a naturalistic scene featuring three Pygmy cormorants (Phalacrocorax pygmeus) rendered in high relief against a mirror-like field. Two adult birds are shown standing on rocky ground, one facing left and one facing right, while a juvenile bird is depicted in the foreground at water level with wings partially spread. Stylized waves appear at the base of the composition. The Turkish common name 'KÜÇÜK KARABATAK' is inscribed along the upper left in bold lettering, with the Linnaean binomial 'Phalacrocorax pygmeus' in italic script below it. The engraver's signature appears in the lower right of the field. |
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Turkey's late-lira wildlife series appeared in the final years before the catastrophic redenomination of 2005, when the New Turkish Lira replaced the old at a ratio of one million to one. A 7,500,000-lira face value was, by that point, barely worth a few US cents in real terms — the denomination says more about two decades of chronic inflation than about the coin's silver content.
The pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) breeds in small numbers along Turkey's Aegean and Anatolian river deltas. Its inclusion in this series reflects conservation pressure; the species had suffered significant habitat loss across southeastern Europe through the 1980s and 1990s.