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100 Kuruş
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint |
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| Year | 1926-1929 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Concave field bearing a three-line Arabic-script inscription commemorating Ankara and the date 23 April 1336 (AH/Rumi), arranged vertically at center. A five-pointed star appears prominently at the top of the field, above the legend. The design is austere and calligraphic in character, with no portrait or figurative elements. The entire central device is set within a recessed, sunken field framed by a beaded border running along the coin's rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | ١٠٠ قروش ١٩٢٩ |
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These were among the first gold coins struck for the Turkish Republic, issued as Atatürk's government worked to establish a modern monetary system independent of the Ottoman financial apparatus that had collapsed under wartime debt. The series ran only three years before gold coinage was effectively withdrawn from circulation as the global depression tightened currency controls across Europe and the Near East.
KM#842 shares its fineness and weight standard with the late Ottoman Çeyrek lira, a deliberate continuity that eased acceptance in a population still skeptical of republican institutions.