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7 500 000 Lira Tulipa orphanidea
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane ve Damga Matbaası Genel Müdürlüğü) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 7 500 000 Lira (7 500 000 TRL) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ 7.500.000 LİRA 2002 State mint amblem |
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Issued as part of Turkey's long-running native flora series, this piece appeared in the final years of the old lira before the catastrophic inflation that had accumulated since the 1970s was formally addressed by the currency redenomination of January 2005 — which replaced the lira at a ratio of 1,000,000 to one. The seven-and-a-half-million-lira face value, absurd on its surface, was simply how commemorative silver was priced against a currency that had lost nearly all practical meaning.
Tulipa orphanidea is a wild tulip native to Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans — the Darphane drew repeatedly from endemic Anatolian species for this collector series through the late 1990s and early 2000s.