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1.000 Livres Turques
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and green on cream-coloured cotton paper, the obverse is framed by an elaborate guilloche border with a green guilloche underprint occupying the central field. The Ottoman tughra appears in a cartouche at the top centre, flanked in the upper corners by the denomination numeral '1000' rendered in both Western and Arabic-script figures. The principal Ottoman Arabic-script text is set in large calligraphic lettering across the central panel, with a manuscript signature and two occurrences of the serial number in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | دولت عثمانية ٢٨ شال ١٣٣٤ LIVRES TURQUES 1000 ١٠٠٠ |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled body established in 1881 after the empire's catastrophic 1875 default, giving foreign creditors direct authority over Ottoman revenue streams. That this institution was issuing currency by 1918 reflects how completely the empire's financial infrastructure had collapsed under the weight of four years of war. The OPDA stepped in where the central treasury could not function.
P#115 is among the highest denominations of this emergency series. By the time these notes circulated, Ottoman paper had suffered severe depreciation — the 1,000 livre face value represented a nominal sum that purchasing power had largely hollowed out.