Catalog
10 Türk Lirası
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Size | 168 x 78 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and multicolour note with a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at right, dressed in formal attire, set within an intricate guilloche border. The centre carries the large numeral '10' over the denomination inscription 'ON TÜRK LİRASI' on a fine guilloche underprint with decorative rosette patterns in violet and green. Two sets of serial numbers and prefix letters appear at upper right and lower left, with facsimile signatures of the issuing officials printed below the central text. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the unprinted area at right of reverse, circular portrait watermark of Atatürk. |
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The Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası was established in 1930, the same year this note was issued, making the earliest dated examples from the bank's first operational period. The institution had been created specifically to remove currency issuance from the Ottoman-era Osmanlı Bankası, a foreign-controlled concession that had held that privilege since 1863. Printing in-house at Ankara rather than contracting a European security printer was a deliberate political choice, not a logistical one.
The early Ankara presswork is notably cruder than contemporary European-printed Turkish notes, and the watermark security on this series is considered relatively easy to replicate by later standards.