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10 Livres Turques
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ديون عمومية عثمانية ٦ لغسطس ١٣٣٢ |
| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green on plain paper, the reverse presents an elaborate guilloche border with repeating star motifs. The central field is occupied by a large block of Ottoman Turkish text in naskh script set within an ornate cartouche, flanked on each side by circular dark-green rosette medallions bearing Arabic numerals. The denomination '10' in Western digits appears in the lower corners alongside Ottoman script equivalents, with a faint guilloché underprint across the central panel. |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was an institution imposed on the Sublime Porte after the state bankruptcy of 1875, effectively placing Ottoman revenue collection under European creditor control. By 1916, with the empire deep in World War I and the OPDA's European staff largely gone, the body was issuing emergency paper under circumstances its original architects could never have anticipated.
This series was printed in Constantinople rather than sent abroad, a logistical necessity of wartime. The isolation from European printing houses shows in the production quality — registration inconsistencies are common across the issue, not a sign of damage to individual notes.