Turkey 1984 500 lira
This specimen was lot 3881 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $108. The catalog description[1] noted, "TURKEY: Republic, AR 500 lira, 1984, World Fisheries Conference, mintage of only 763 pieces, Choice Proof, R." This type was struck at Istanbul and the Royal Mint in copper-nickel, silver and gold. Numista says the gold issue was included in sets containing Cape Verde (KM 22b), Ghana (KM 21b), São Tomé and Príncipe (KM 41b), Mozambique (KM 106b), Seychelles (KM 53b), Somalia (KM 40b), Liberia (KM 47b) and Uruguay (KM 86b).
Recorded mintage: 2,710 in coin alignment plus 3,906 in medal alignment plus 1,575 in sterling silver plus 90 in gold.
Specifications: KM 968: 28.28 g, copper-nickel, 38.6 mm diameter, reeded edge; KM-968a: 28.28 g, 0.925 fine silver; KM 968b: 47.54 g, 0.917 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM 968 (copper-nickel), KM-968a (silver) and KM 968b (gold).
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
Links:
- 1979 500 lira, Anatolian bride
- 1979 500 lira, Year of the Child
- 1981 lira
- 1982 3000 lira, International Year of the Scout
- 1982 100,000 lira, seal of Muhammad
- Cape Verde 1984 50 escudos, World Fisheries Conference
- Somalia 1984 25 shillings, World Fisheries Conference
- 1984 50,000 lira, UN Decade for Women
- Coins and currency dated 1984