Catalog
10 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Reference(s) | P#192 |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI ON TÜRK LİRASI 14 OCAK 1970 TARİH VE 1211 SAYILI KANUNA GÖRE ÇIKARILMIŞTIR BAŞKAN BAŞKAN YARDIMCISI TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI BANKNOT MATBAASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Ten Turkish Lira, Issued according to the law number 1211 of 14 January 1970, President, Vice-President, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Banknote Printing House) |
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| Reverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI ON-TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Ten Turkish Lira) |
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By 1979, Turkey's 10 Lira note was functionally obsolete before it left the press. Inflation was running at roughly 70–80% annually through the late 1970s, and the denomination had been effectively swallowed by price levels that made it nearly worthless in everyday transactions. The note continued to circulate largely out of institutional inertia.
The Banknot Matbaası in Ankara had been printing Turkey's own currency since 1955, ending decades of reliance on foreign printers — De La Rue among them. P#192 belongs to the later years of that in-house operation's first mature phase, before the currency reforms of the 1980s reshuffled the entire series.