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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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| Value | 100 000 Lira (100 000 TRL) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette renders an intaglio scene of Atatürk standing at left, receiving a floral bouquet from a group of young schoolchildren who are arrayed in a procession toward him, all set against radiating linear and guilloche background work in red-brown and green. Geometric Celtic-style interlace panels frame the right margin, and the denomination is stated in large numerals at lower left and in word form at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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The note was superseded not by a new series but by a currency redenomination process that culminated in the 2005 introduction of the New Turkish Lira, which lopped six zeros off every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.