Catalog
10 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in three-quarter view occupies the right portion of the note, rendered with fine line engraving against a green and brown guilloche underprint. A central vignette contains a smaller cameo portrait of Atatürk within an ornate rosette, flanked by two facsimile signatures above the titles BAŞKAN and BAŞKAN YARDIMCISI. Denomination numerals appear in ornamental cartouches at lower left and upper right, with the bank name and legal authority inscription set in letterpress across the upper field. |
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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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Turkey's in-house printing operation, the Banknot Matbaası, had been producing notes since 1955, and by the early 1980s the facility was printing into a deteriorating monetary environment. Inflation through the late 1970s and early 1980s was severe enough that the 10 Lira denomination — still circulating as recently as the late 1970s as a meaningful unit — had become nearly worthless in everyday transactions by the time this issue was struck.
The 1982 series relied solely on a watermark for security. For a denomination already being eroded into irrelevance by triple-digit annual inflation rates, more sophisticated counterfeit deterrence was hardly a priority.