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7 500 000 Lira Sabiha Gökçen
| Issuer | Turkey State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1115 |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter-length effigy of Sabiha Gökçen in military flight uniform, wearing a helmet and raising her right hand to her brow in a saluting gesture, depicted to the right of center in fine relief. To the left, a formation of military aircraft is shown in flight above a rugged mountainous landscape rendered in detailed low relief. The legend İLK KADIN PİLOTUMUZ (Our First Female Pilot) arcs along the upper border, and the name SABİHA GÖKÇEN appears in prominent incuse letters along the lower rim. The engraver's signature Nesrin Ekşi is inscribed in the lower right field. |
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| Mint | Turkish State Mint, Istanbul |
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Sabiha Gökçen, one of Atatürk's adopted daughters, became the world's first female combat pilot in 1937 when she flew bombing missions during the suppression of the Dersim uprising in eastern Anatolia — an event the Turkish state celebrated at the time and has since handled with considerably more ambivalence. This coin was issued to mark the centennial of her birth.
The 7,500,000 lira face value reflects Turkey's chronic inflation of the 1990s, which had rendered the lira so debased that commemorative silver issues required eight-digit denominations to maintain nominal parity with bullion value.