The Hagia Sophia Mosque, which will be opened for worship again after 86 years, was included in the special souvenir Euro.The institution, which the European Central Bank has licensed to print money for tourism purposes, has the symbols printed in real euro standards and Hagia Sophia on the front and European countries on the back.Commemorative money printed for tourism and promotional purposes was made in real euro standards.There are '0' in order to avoid being treated as real money in the commemorative Euro banknotes, which is printed about 10 thousand.Saidcommemorative moneys in EuropeandTurkey,will be usedto promote theHagia Sophia.
"WE HAVE FORESEEN THE DECISION"
Numismatistand0 EuroProjectrepresentativeofTurkey, Özgür Honçasaid that ,"The decision onreopeningHagia Sophia toworshipisvery convenient.We havemade suchan attemptto supportTurkey.This is obviouslya souvenirmoney.This is our17thcommemorative coins. This work of ours took place in about a month. We have foreseen the decision to open Hagia Sophia for worship. We carried out a related activity a month ago.Incidentally, on the day of Hagia Sophia's decision to open for worship, we received the gift money.It was an important source of pride for us. "
"THE HAGIA SOPHIA COMMEMORATIVE BANKNOTES WAS PRODUCED IN FRANCE"
Stating that the money in question was printed in a real euro printing house in France, Honça said, "This printing house is also an institution that prints money in 15 countries. This money is the same as the other euro, watermark, hologram, security lanes and serial numbers. The reason for the money is 0is for not being treated as real money.The money is made in a single color, because this is the permission given to us.Also, since our workspace is narrow, we cannot play with colors.We can't play too much on the money.We cannot do any work outside of the field given to us. "