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100 000 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1991-1994 |
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| Currency | Old lira (1923-2005) |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI YÜZ BİN 100000 TÜRK LİRASI 14 OCAK 1970 TARİH VE 1211 SAYILI KANUNA GÖRE ÇIKARILMIŞTIR (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, One Hundred Thousand Turkish Lira, Issued according to the law number 1211 of 14 January 1970) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents Atatürk standing at left, rendered in intaglio, receiving a bouquet of flowers from a group of uniformed schoolchildren gathered to his right, all set against a radiating multicolour guilloche background in pink, blue and green. An ornate interlaced geometric panel in yellow, green and teal occupies the right margin. The denomination numerals '100000' appear at lower left, with the written denomination 'YÜZ BİN TÜRK LİRASI' in bold at lower right. |
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Turkey's inflation crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s forced denominations upward at a pace the public found difficult to absorb. The 100,000 Lira note, unimaginable in face value just a decade earlier, entered circulation as a functional everyday note — not a high-denomination reserve instrument. Annual inflation was running above 60% for much of this issue period, peaking near 106% in 1994, the year this series was withdrawn.
Printed in-house by the central bank's own Ankara facility, the note reflects Turkey's long-standing policy of maintaining sovereign printing capacity rather than contracting foreign security printers. The 1994 economic crisis — triggered by a collapse in confidence in government debt — effectively ended this series early.