Turkey Republic 1 Lira 1961 aUN (Mint)

Exceptional stainless coin struck within a set from 1959 to 1967. Its coinage was at Constantinople Mint. The Republic of Turkey, a parliamentary democracy of the Near East located partially in Europe and partially in Asia between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. The Ottoman Turks, a tribe from Central Asia, first appeared in the early 13th. Century, and by the 17th. Century had established the Ottoman Empire which stretched from the Persian Gulf to the southern frontier of Poland , and from the Caspian Sea to the Algerian Plateau. The defeat of the Turkish Navy by the Holy League in 1571 and of the Turkish forces besieging Vienna in 1863, began the steady decline of the Ottoman Empire which, accelerated by the rise of nationalism , contracted its European border, and by the end of 1st. World War (1914-1918), deprived of its Arab lands. The present Turkish boundaries were largely fixed by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. The sultanate and caliphate, the political and spiritual ruling institutions of the Old Empire, were the separated and the sultanate abolished in 1922. On 29th. of October 1923, Turkey formally became a Republic.