Catalog
10 Lira Brown
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is engraved entirely in brown intaglio, centred on a detailed architectural vignette of the Sultan Ahmed III Fountain (Ahmet III Çeşmesi) in the Hippodrome of Istanbul, rendered with fine cross-hatching and surrounded by trees. Large ornamental '10' counters in elaborate guilloche frames occupy both left and right panels, with the bank name across the top and denomination inscriptions at lower left and right. The imprint of American Bank Note Company appears at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI 10 TÜRK LİRASI AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (Translation: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic, 10, Turkish Lira) |
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Turkey contracted the American Bank Note Company for several postwar issues, and this note belongs to a printing relationship that stretched across much of the early Republican period. The ABNC's New York facilities were responsible for the intaglio work, giving the series a crispness of line that domestic printing could not yet match — Turkey's own security printing infrastructure was still developing in the late 1940s.
The "Brown" designation in dealer shorthand distinguishes this from earlier 10 Lira issues in the same Pick sequence that differ primarily by color. A minor but practically necessary distinction when cataloging this decade's Turkish output.