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  • 10 Kuruş 1971-1974, KM# 898, Turkey, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Agricultural Progress
  • 10 Kuruş 1971-1974, KM# 898, Turkey, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Agricultural Progress
Description

KM# 898.1 is thicker, 3.5 g
KM# 898.2 is thinner, 2.5 g

Obverse

Close-up of Atatürk driving a tractor to right, star and crescent (right) above, surrounded by the inscriptions "Republic of Turkey" above and "Plough is superior to sword" below.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938. His surname, Atatürk (meaning "Father of the Turks"), was granted to him in 1934.

The star and crescent is an iconographic symbol used in various historical contexts but most well known today as a symbol of the former Ottoman Empire and, by popular extension, the Islamic world. The Republic of Turkey has no official national emblem, but the star and crescent (Turkish: ay-yıldız "crescent-star") design from the national flag is in use as de facto emblem, among other things printed on Turkish passports, on Turkish identity cards and diplomatic missions of Turkey.

TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ
ATATÜRK
• SABAN KILIÇTAN ÜSTÜNDÜR •

Reverse

Oat stalks divide value and date.

10 1971
KURUŞ

Edge

10 Kuruş

KM# 898 Schön# 419
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Bronze
Weight 3.5 g
Diameter 21 mm
Thickness 1.4 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Alt # KM# 898.1, KM# 898.2
Mint
Turkish State Mint

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