Catalogus
| Uitgever | Dette Publique Ottomane |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1918 |
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| Waarde | 100 Livres Turques |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | دیون عمومیه عثمانیه ١٠٠ ليره عثمانيه ٢٨ كانون ١٣٢٤ |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed in pale grey-black on plain cream paper, with a comparatively restrained design dominated by large Arabic-script text panels set within an arched framework. The denomination 100 appears in Ottoman numerals at lower left and lower right, flanked by simple geometric guilloche side panels; a manuscript signature line is visible at centre below the text block, and the serial number is printed at upper right in Latin characters. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled financial body established after the empire's 1881 debt default, essentially a creditor-run agency managing Ottoman revenues on behalf of bondholders in Paris and London. That a wartime emergency note was issued under its authority rather than the Imperial treasury is itself telling: by 1918 the central government had so thoroughly exhausted its own credit mechanisms that this semi-foreign institution became a de facto issuer of last resort.
The 1918 series circulated during the empire's final collapse, and surviving examples frequently show heavy use — the economic chaos of that year meant these notes turned over rapidly before the Ottoman lira became worthless in the postwar settlement.