Silver Turkish Lira (1948)
Ok, I think I'll pause my ongoing holy silver series for a while, I have still lots of pieces to share but I got bored of sharing my silver icons.
How about one my recent coin additions? A Turkish silver lira from 1948!
A pretty basic front, featuring the denomination and a wreath, a symbol traditionally used for victory and honor. In this case, it is made of wheat ears, symbolizing the importance of agriculture for the Turkish economy and culture.
The other side is plain as well
Here we have a star and a crescent, surrounded by the words "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti" for Republic of Turkey and the minting date. As you probably know, the star and the crescent is a prominent symbol used in all kinds of context both in the old Ottoman republic, modern Turkey and Islam related stuff, so no wonder it found it's way here.
However, what you may not know is that it actually originates from the Greek colony of Byzantium. Feel free to visit wikipedia to learn more about it's history if you like!
The side of the coin keeps on the basic theme. No engravings or other fancy stuff:
The coin weights 7.5 g and is made of 0.600 silver. The rest is copper. So, about 4.5 grams of pure silver. With today's spot price that is about 3.2 $.
All in all, a basic and imo quite boring coin. It is the first one I own from modern Turkey, hopefully I'll get more if I see any popping on the market for a decent price!
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Interesting..
But what is more interesting is your knowledge about the history of these coins
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Nice one... I see coins in Turkish or Islamic are more like simple and star or moon "Halal" is always on one of side.
This coin reassemble a lot to 2rs coin we had in 2000s something.
2rs?
nice coin, from the time when Turkey was a free and not a religious shithole
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That's racist!
No, it is called secular, which separates religion from every day life. They had a wise man as leader, called Atatürk, which as a fact was born in Thessaloniki, who separated religion from the state affairs.
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It's a nice silver coin. Excellent for collecting !
It is similar to the coins in our country, let me show you some of them
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Nothing fancy but it's silver and I would at least ad one to the collection if I stumbled across it
It's a really nice coin and it's really nice to know about it and thanks for sharing.
😉🤙 nice a simple.. clean look! I really like the endging on that coin..
Nice coin. Well parts of Turkey were originally part of Greece I believe.
Meh, a story that goes thousands of years ago. Long discussion, multiple povs and arguments to be made..
A kind of boring design but it's silver!
Yep !
Nice coin and I think it's nice to have a large variety of coins. They will add up over time but organizing them might be a pain.
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4.5 grams of silver. $3 or 6 HIVE. A couple of such coins have already rang under this post.
not sexy silver is not sexy :)
Nice! Man... your collection is just exploding. I just keep seeing more and more additions! 😲
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I have no idea why, but that design made me think of a yen coin
Of course a yen is only crappy aluminium instead of silver, so...
The coin looks fine
Its looks so beautiful and amazing. I wants to add Turkish coin in my collection. I have a lot of love for silver since my childhood and I have also invested some money in it.
It's silver ...mostly, so it counts for stacking.
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I got it close to.... Spot! Ha