Mazhar Nazım was one of the winning contestants of the coin design competition of 1934, organized for the cupronickel small change.
His models for the obverse were chosen but not realized.
Mazhar Nazım studied arts in Academy of Fine Arts and later masted on stained glass at the Decorative Arts Institute of Paris. After his return to Türkiye in 1933, he taught arts and crafts at Applied Fine Arts High School and Institute of Fine Arts for Girls (*source – TR).
For the reverse of the coins, Architect Nurettin‘s submission was chosen but not realised.
Minting the new coins could not be realized in 1934 and as relations with the Royal Mint deepened, Percy Metcalfe‘s designs were used on the coinage of 1935.
