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100 Lira
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
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| Year | 1984-1988 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ (Translation: Republic of Turkey) |
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| Mintage | 1984 - - 758,000 1985 - - 866,000 1986 - - 12,064,000 1987 - - 91,400,000 1988 - - 36,184,000 |
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Turkey's 100 Lira coin arrived as the country was still absorbing the economic shocks that followed the 1980 military coup. The junta had handed power back to a civilian government by 1983, but chronic inflation — already accelerating toward the triple-digit rates that would define the late 1980s — was quietly eroding the denomination's usefulness almost from the moment of issue. By the time production ended in 1988, 100 Lira bought roughly what a fraction of that figure had purchased just a few years prior.
The nickel-brass alloy was a cost-conscious reformulation common to Turkish coinage of this transitional period.