Placed on the cabinet in front of Emin Barın’s hand-written rendition of Atatürk’s “Address to Youth” Daily Bread is made up of 250 one-kurus coins placed on an old, found scale which appears to belong to the room. The number of coins, which corresponded to the price of a loaf of bread during the preparation stage of the exhibition, had already risen to 350 by the time the exhibition was opened. The value added to the scale during the course of the exhibition subverts the feeling, created by the furniture and belongings in the venue, that time has stopped. That the scale can no longer weigh the coins (because they exceed the 500-gram limit) and that the gulf between the value of the currency and that of metals becomes more visible as the number of coins increases both indicate a situation beyond our control. The implications of the work can also be considered in light of the facts that one-kurus coins are still in use but are no longer produced by the national mint, that coins in use are collected as scrap metal because of their relatively high material value, and that damaging the Turkish Lira is punishable by law.