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10 Livres Turques
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Reference(s) | P#92 |
| Obverse description | Olive-green note with an intricate guilloche border framing the entire face. Two large six-pointed star vignettes flank the central Arabic calligraphic text block, with the numeral '10' in Western digits to the left and Ottoman script numerals to the right. At the top centre, the Imperial Ottoman tughra appears within a cartouche, above multi-line Ottoman calligraphic inscriptions; two circular green rosette underprints and a manuscript signature appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | ١٠ 10 |
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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.