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In 1922–23, a new coinage was introduced consisting of aluminium-bronze 2 + 1 ⁄ 2, 5 and 10 kuruş and nickel 25 kuruş (kr.).They were last issued in 1928. These were the last Turkish coins to bear inscriptions in the Arabic script.
In 1844, the Turkish gold lira was introduced as the new standard denomination. It was divided into 100 silver kuruş and the kuruş continued to circulate until the 1970s. Kuruş eventually became obsolete due to the chronic inflation in Turkey in the late 1970s. A currency reform on 1 January 2005 provided its return as 1 ⁄ 100 of the new lira.
The lira (Turkish: Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; [2] abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as well as one of the three currencies used in Syrian Opposition under the country's interim government. [1]
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World War I saw Turkey effectively depart from the gold standard with the gold lira being worth about LT 9 in paper money by the early 1920s. Between 1844 and 1855, coins were introduced in denominations of 1p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 1 ⁄ 2 pt, 1pt, 2pt, 5pt, 10pt, 20pt and LT 1 ⁄ 4 , LT 1 ⁄ 2 , LT 1, LT 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 and LT 5.
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