Turkey turned to the American Bank Note Company for several of its mid-century issues — a practical choice given ABNCo's capacity for intaglio work at a time when European security printers were still rebuilding after the war. The 1947 series was produced under the third emission group of the Central Bank, which had been restructuring its note designs through the 1940s with an eye toward harder-to-counterfeit production standards.
The "Red" designation distinguishes this from the contemporaneous green-tinted 10 Lira issues of the same period — a collector convenience, not an official bank classification. Watermark authentication was the primary security measure, consistent with ABNCo practice for Turkish contracts of this decade.
Turkey turned to the American Bank Note Company for several of its mid-century issues — a practical choice given ABNCo's capacity for intaglio work at a time when European security printers were still rebuilding after the war. The 1947 series was produced under the third emission group of the Central Bank, which had been restructuring its note designs through the 1940s with an eye toward harder-to-counterfeit production standards.
The "Red" designation distinguishes this from the contemporaneous green-tinted 10 Lira issues of the same period — a collector convenience, not an official bank classification. Watermark authentication was the primary security measure, consistent with ABNCo practice for Turkish contracts of this decade.