1971 Turkish 10 Kurus, Question About The Word Kurus

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Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 09/29/2019 9:33 pm This Turkish 10 KURUS came from my late Grandpa's Littleton coin collection. My question is this, is the word KURUS suppose to be one word or two? Everything I have seen shows it to be one word but this coin has a dot between the letters U and R making it appear to be two words. My guess on this is it has to be a well placed die dent. Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 09/30/2019 04:53 am https://en.numista.com/ John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34401 Posts	Posted 09/30/2019 05:24 am Hmm, I don't see this dot on the numista example: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1134.html "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 09/30/2019 06:13 am John1 and Spence, I looked at Numista and every site I could find with currency from Turkey and have found nothing to show the dot between the U and R. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21786 Posts	Posted 09/30/2019 08:13 am Wikipedia had a good explanation for the word 'KURUS' Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 09/30/2019 1:08 pm I happened to find this from the online Oxford dictionary. Extremely odd that this coin has the same dot between the U and R. I still think it may be a die dent but could be wrong as the dot is semmetrical and appears to be in an exact location. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16817 Posts	Posted 09/30/2019 9:15 pm It's just a fortuitously placed die chip. "Kurus" is one word, the Turkish version of the older Arabic coin denomination, the "qirsh". The dot in the dictionary is there as a pronunciation guide; Turkish does not have such punctuation in everyday use. The litle curly bit attached to the base of the S, however, is supposed to be there, telling you that this "S" is meant to be pronounced "Sh" rather than a plain "S". It is considered a separate letter in the Turkish alphabet. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
2014Cent Valued Member United States 90 Posts	Posted 02/20/2020 11:30 am Neat either way! Report this Post to the Staff
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