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.
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.