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10 000 Lira Blue ornament
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1982-1989 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio portrait of the celebrated Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan in three-quarter view, wearing a period turban, with his name and life dates "1490–1588" inscribed beneath. To the left, a detailed line-engraved rendering of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne rises against an uncluttered background, its four slender minarets and expansive central dome rendered with precision. A stylised arabesque and floral ornamental panel in purple occupies the far left margin, providing compositional balance. |
| Reverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CÜMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI ON BİN TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Ten Thousand Turkish Lira) |
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Turkey's 10,000 Lira denomination arrived as a direct consequence of chronic inflation that had been eroding the lira since the late 1970s — a decade earlier, such a note would have been inconceivable for everyday commerce. By the mid-1980s it was buying a loaf of bread. The series ran seven years, an unusually long lifespan for a high denomination under inflationary pressure, which partly explains the wide variation in serial number prefixes collectors encounter.
Printed entirely in-house at the Ankara banknote facility, this is one of the earlier notes where Turkey had fully internalized production from plate to finished sheet — no foreign contractor involved.