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3 Euro Blue Mosque
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2004 |
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Turkey's EU accession negotiations were formally opened in October 2005, but this piece predates that milestone by a year — issued when membership still seemed a genuine near-term possibility rather than an indefinitely deferred political question. The denomination itself, three euros struck by a non-EU member state, had no legal tender status anywhere in the eurozone and was aimed squarely at the collector and tourist markets.
Several countries outside the EU produced euro-denominated collector issues in the early 2000s, a practice the European Central Bank repeatedly objected to but lacked the jurisdiction to prevent.