Catalog
100 000 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1996-1999 |
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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 BAŞKAN BAŞKAN YARDIMCISI (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, One Hundred Thousand Turkish Lira, Issued according to the law number 1211 of 14 January 1970, Governor, Deputy Governor) |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in half-profile |
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By the mid-1990s, Turkish inflation had eroded the lira so thoroughly that 100,000 was a workaday denomination rather than a large-value note. The Central Bank's own printing works in Ankara — established in 1955 specifically to reduce dependence on foreign printers — produced this series entirely in-house, which kept procurement costs down but also meant the security feature package remained relatively modest: a watermark, and little else by way of machine-readable or thread-based protection.
The note was superseded not by a new series but by a currency redenomination process that culminated in the 2005 introduction of the New Turkish Lira, which lopped six zeros off every denomination.