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1 Livre Law of 6 August AH1332
| Issuer | Ottoman Public Debt Administration (Düyun-u Umumiye) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-grey on cream paper with a central multicolour guilloche rosette underprint in rose and olive tones. The Imperial tughra of Sultan Mehmed V is set within an oval cartouche at the top centre, flanked by ornate arabesque corner pieces and a continuous interlaced border. The denomination numeral '1' appears in octagonal panels at left and right, with the title inscription in Ottoman Arabic script across the upper centre, the law date '6 Ağustos 1332' below, and a hand-signed manuscript signature above the bottom panel bearing the issuer's name in Ottoman script. |
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| Obverse lettering | خزينه عليه عثمانيه ٦ آغسطوس سنه ١٣٣٢ تاريخ قانونو حجيّه بوعهده رسمعثمانلى ليراسيدر |
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The Düyun-u Umumiye — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled financial body established in 1881 to manage revenues pledged against the empire's foreign loans. That it found itself issuing emergency currency during the First World War is a measure of how completely the empire's institutional finances had fractured: the regular treasury and the Imperial Ottoman Bank were both overwhelmed, and authority to print was effectively delegated wherever capacity existed.
The dating follows the Rumi fiscal calendar, with AH1332 corresponding to 1916 CE. Notes from this series are frequently found with significant circulation wear — wartime Istanbul was cash-starved, and these were used hard.