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1 Livre Turque
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Livre Turque |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and green tones on a light ground with a fine guilloche underprint. The numeral "1" appears in large format at both left and right within ornate cartouches, flanked by an elaborate foliate and arabesque border frame. The central field carries multi-line Ottoman calligraphic inscriptions including the issuer's title and date, with the serial number printed in red at lower left and lower right, and additional small Ottoman text and seals positioned at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | اشبو ورقه قانوناً تداوله مجاز اولوب هر كيم كه تزوير ايلرسه |
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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 sovereign default, staffed largely by French and British creditor representatives. That this same institution was still issuing emergency wartime currency in 1916 reflects how thoroughly the Ottoman state's finances had been penetrated by foreign interests, even as the empire fought on the side of the Central Powers against those same creditor nations.
Dèsèque & Dèvillin were a Paris-based printing house, though wartime conditions by 1916 make the actual production logistics of this series genuinely murky. Paper quality in late issues of the type is notoriously inconsistent.