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25 Kuruş Gold Bullion Coinage
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Weight | 1.8041 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ 1923 (Translation: Republic of Turkey) |
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The year "1923" on this coin is not a date of minting — it is the founding year of the Turkish Republic, used as a fixed reference across the entire bullion series. The actual striking date is encoded in the secondary figure, the regnal year, which appears alongside it. This dating convention was adopted to anchor the coinage symbolically to the Republic's establishment under Atatürk's government, making any single example's true production year impossible to determine from the 1923 figure alone.
These fractional gold pieces were produced across several decades at the Istanbul Mint, serving domestic demand for small-denomination gold savings.