Bradbury Wilkinson held the contract for Turkish banknote printing through much of the mid-century, and this note falls within that long productive relationship. The brown reverse distinguishes it from the earlier issues in the same series, which had a different color treatment — a deliberate revision rather than a new denomination or design cycle, making it easy to conflate with its predecessor when catalog references are incomplete.
P#167 is among the less frequently encountered mid-century Turkish issues in circulated grades, largely because the 100 Lira represented serious purchasing power in 1952 Turkey, and notes of that value tended to be handled carefully or held.
Bradbury Wilkinson held the contract for Turkish banknote printing through much of the mid-century, and this note falls within that long productive relationship. The brown reverse distinguishes it from the earlier issues in the same series, which had a different color treatment — a deliberate revision rather than a new denomination or design cycle, making it easy to conflate with its predecessor when catalog references are incomplete.
P#167 is among the less frequently encountered mid-century Turkish issues in circulated grades, largely because the 100 Lira represented serious purchasing power in 1952 Turkey, and notes of that value tended to be handled carefully or held.