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10 Kuruş
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 1926-1928 |
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| Composition | Aluminium bronze (91% Copper, 9% Aluminium) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the denomination in large Eastern Arabic-Indic numeral '١٠' (10) to the left, with the Arabic legend 'غُرُوش' (Kuruş) inscribed below in flowing script. A crescent and five-pointed star, symbols of the Turkish Republic, appear prominently in the upper portion of the field. To the right, a bold oak branch with deeply detailed lobed leaves sweeps diagonally across the field from upper right to lower left. The design is contained within a beaded inner border following the full circumference of the coin. |
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These early Republican issues were among the first coinage produced under Mustafa Kemal's newly secularized state, which had formally abolished the Ottoman caliphate just two years before the series began. The mint contracts went to the Monnaie de Paris, as Turkey had no domestic striking capacity adequate to the task. Production ran only three years before the type was revised.