Catalog
10 000 000 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Reference(s) | P#214 |
| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait vignette of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk occupying the left-centre of the note, set against a large crescent-and-star guilloche underprint in shades of red and pink. The denomination numeral '10000000' appears in dark violet at upper left and in red at lower right, flanked by the bank title at upper right and the legal-authority inscription at centre right, with two facsimile signatures below. A gold holographic security patch is positioned at the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette reproduces the Piri Reis world map of 1513, rendered in fine intaglio line work across the middle of the note, with a compass rose at lower left and rhumb lines radiating across the cartographic field. A period Ottoman sailing vessel appears at lower right in red intaglio print, while a ghost watermark portrait of Atatürk is visible as an underprint at centre right. The denomination and bank title are set in large violet and red letterpress numerals at the corners. |
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By the time this note entered circulation, Turkey's cumulative inflation since 1970 had rendered the lira nearly unmanageable as a counting currency — ten million of them was a mid-range transaction, not a large one. The Central Bank's own printing facility in Ankara had been producing increasingly large denominations throughout the 1990s simply to keep pace with a monetary system that peaked at 20,000,000 Lira before the 2005 redenomination stripped six zeroes and introduced the New Turkish Lira.
P#214 is a late-series artifact of that period, and the hologram strip was added precisely because high-denomination notes attract sophisticated forgery.