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10 Livres Turques
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | بو بنق بیانی و ان نفسه ذلك فا يستيفي ويبور جمهور بيك هما اوامر ستوزيع بيلتصا ارلغبها ١٠ |
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| Protection description | Watermarked paper with a pattern visible when held to light. |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled financial body established in 1881 after the Sublime Porte's catastrophic 1875 default. That a foreign creditor syndicate, not the Ottoman treasury, was issuing currency by 1915–1917 tells you everything about the empire's fiscal condition in its final years. These wartime notes were necessitated by a complete collapse of public confidence in Ottoman financing and the near-impossibility of importing quality printed currency through a wartime naval blockade.
The cotton substrate and watermark security were deliberate signals of seriousness to a skeptical public, though widespread counterfeiting remained a documented problem across the series.