TURKEY 

KM 1241

SHORT COINS

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

                

Face Value Diameter mm Weight g Thickness mm Edge Composition Rotation
10 kurus 18.5 3.15 1.65 Reeded Copper-Nickel-Zinc Medal
Obverse Reverse

The inscriptions in Turkish along the rim - 'The Republic of Turkey', in the center -head of Atatürk left.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – Nov. 10, 1938) was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first president.

In the center: face value superposed on a Rumi motif, above - crescent and star, below - the year of minting.

The 'Rumi', one of the leading motifs of the Turkish decorative arts.

Coin was introduced in 2009.