10 Kuruş

These small-denomination Treasury notes were issued under the Tanzimat reform program, when the Ottoman state was desperately trying to stabilize public finances during and after the Crimean War. The Hazine-i Devlet had already experimented with paper money in the 1840s with the kaime, a deeply unpopular instrument that collapsed in value almost immediately — by the mid-1850s, public trust had barely recovered.

The sole security feature, an official seal, reflects the primitive anti-counterfeiting capability of the period. Forgery was a persistent problem across the entire kaime series.