Catalog
100 Livres
| Issuer | Imperial Ottoman Bank (Banque Impériale Ottomane) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | دولت عثمانية ١٠٠ ليره تركيه LIVRES TURQUES 100 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green and pale tones, with the serial number at the top centre above a central panel of Ottoman Arabic text setting out the note's promise to pay, flanked by large denomination numerals '١٠٠' in green at left and right within guilloche ovals. Two lines of smaller Arabic text appear at the lower left and right corners, and a manuscript signature is visible across the centre of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Imperial Ottoman Bank — technically a Franco-British joint-stock institution chartered in 1863, not a state institution — held the exclusive right to issue banknotes throughout the Ottoman Empire. By 1918 that arrangement was severely strained. The war had severed the bank's operational ties to its Paris and London shareholders, and printing had shifted to Berlin as a consequence of the Ottoman-German alliance. Bundesdruckerei (then still operating under its earlier name Reichsdruckerei) handled the production.
Notes of this series are frequently found with severe paper deterioration — wartime paper stocks in Berlin were already compromised by 1918, and the chemistry has not aged well.