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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 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio portrait vignette of President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in right-facing profile occupies the right portion of the face, set against a guilloche underprint in blue and purple tones. The denomination "ON BİN TÜRK LİRASI" appears in large serif lettering at centre, accompanied by the statutory issuance clause below; two serial numbers are positioned at lower centre and upper left. Floral ornamental motifs embellish the lower left corner of the composition. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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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.