Turkey 2000 25 kurush

from Stephen Album sale 41, lot 2814

This specimen was lot 2814 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $156. The catalog description^[1] noted, "TURKEY: AV 25 kurush, 2000, Monnaie de Luxe, incorrectly labeled as 50 kurush on the slab, NGC graded MS64." This monnaie de luxe was struck 1942-2010 for use in jewelry. It is wider and thinner than the twenty-five kurush struck for bullion. It is not known circulated.

Recorded mintage: unknown but not rare.

Specification: 1.75 g, 0.917 fine gold.

Catalog reference: KM-870.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

Link to:

• 1991 50,000 lira, death of Mozart
• Turkey 2003 50 kurush monnaie de luxe
• Coins and currency dated 2000