Latest releases of the Turkish Mint

[RenaL]

The Turkish State Mint released two new coins;

The first one is commemorating the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Turkish Independance war ; May 19th 1919.





The second one is the second piece of the "Anatolian Civilizations" set and depicts a couple of artefacts of the Hittite Empire.



Links to the pages where I tried to compile some more info on the coins:

90th ann. of 19.05.1919

Hittites Commemorative coin

[Nighthawk]

Very nice coins. Thanks for sharing! 

[Triggersmob]

Ditto

[EgCollector]

Very nice coins Thanks for sharing

[RenaL]

The Turkish State Mint released some new coins since my last post;

Here you can see them all listed.
http://sites.google.com/site/cointurk

Keloglan


Imperial Eagle & Bearded Vulture


200th birthday of Frederic Chopin


IMF meeting in Istanbul


Source of Life: Water




150th anniversary of Mekteb-i Mulkiye


1430th anniversary of Hijra


400th birthday of Katip Celebi


and two bi-metallic coins: Turtle and Elephant

[Triggersmob]

Some very nice designs.
Renal, are any of these coins going into circulation?

[Humpybong]

I like all of the new coins but like the bi-metallic coins more, RenaL

Thanks for showing them.

[RenaL]

None of them are intended for circulation Steve.

The Eagle/Vulture and the Turltle & Elphant coins are intended to draw attention from younger collectors, because they are almost circulation denomination, but they are also collector items, limited strikes.

[Humpybong]

Hello RenaL......how can I obtain a couple of each of the bi-metallic coins.

Is there a website that I can purchase them.....what is the cost of each?

[RenaL]

Those two coins are limited editions, 5000 each and I am allowed to buy only 5 of each.

According to the agreement between TR Mint and a German company, the coins were released in Germany last October, and www.pfalzmuenzen.de sells them at 9,5 Euros, I don't know if they have a limit. (http://www.pfalzmuenzen.de/Europa_ohne_GUS/1179_Tuerkei_2009_2_x_1_Lira_BimetallSondermuenzen_Elefant_und_Schildkroete/cda00df53b2d43b86154154df83e1a91/)

The Eagle coin is also a product of such an agreement, I believe a Dutch company.
100.000 of the coins are exported and the domestic strikes are limited to 20.000 pcs.


Barry, check you email;)

[EgCollector]

very nice coins Renal  

i like both the girl face in the Source of Life: Water coin, and the roses in the 1430th anniversary of Hijra coin.

Thanks for sharing  

[Templar]

YOU HAVE SOME VERY UNIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL COINS--------VERY DIFFERENT--THANKS VERY MUCH FOR SHARING

          YOUR SERVANT........THE TEMPLAR

[Yass]

Nice coins Renal,
I quite liked the Bronze 1430th anniversary of Hijra.
I also thought I'd drop in on the Mint site. Unfortunately its in Turkish and the English Button didn't work.

[RenaL]

They renewed the website recently, the English part should work soon.

[RenaL]

We have a couple of  new coins since the last time I visited the castle.

Most of them are still collectors' editions, two are commemorative circulation coins (Turkish Olympics & 150 years of high court), but I could only get some from the mint shop.

 http://worldcoinnews.blogspot.com/search/label/turkey

[Triggersmob]

Beautiful coins Renal.
I wish Australia would do some
circulating bi-metals. 

[RenaL]

In that case we wouldn't be able to count your coins