POWER OF GOLD, GOLDS OF POWER

The beginnings of the Yapı Kredi Coin Collections, which rank among the most important coin collections in the world today, reach back to 1954. Yapı Kredi Bankası was founded on 9 September 1944. In 1954, on the occasion of the bank's tenth anniversary, its principal founder, Kâzım Taşkent, gathered around himself a group of the leading figures in the arts and culture of the day and after reminding them that one of the purposes for which Yapı Kredi was founded was to contribute to the cultural life of the nation, he asked them what sorts of activities could be undertaken on this important anniversary to accomplish this. ... Gold is a metal that has been recognized by its characteristic luminous yellow color since the Neolithic and even the Mesolithin periods and is used in ornamentation and as money..