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100 Türk Lirası
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası |
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| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark olive-green and blue intaglio print on a fine guilloche underprint. At right, a bust-length portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in three-quarter profile faces left, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving within an ornate frame. The large numeral '100' and the denomination legend 'YÜZ TÜRK LİRASI' are set centrally, flanked by elaborate lattice and foliate border ornaments, with the bank title 'TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI' across the top and the statutory inscription referencing the law of 11 June 1930 below the denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green intaglio, the reverse centres on a scenic vignette of the Ankara Gençlik Parkı, with a pedestrian bridge spanning a calm reflecting pool in the foreground and a densely wooded hillside and urban skyline beyond. The bank title 'TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI' is inscribed across the top, with the value '100' and 'TÜRK LİRASI' repeated in the upper-left and upper-right cartouches. Ornate guilloche borders and corner ornaments frame the composition on all four sides. |
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The Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası was itself only established in 1930, the same year this note was issued — the bank's printing facility in Ankara came online as a deliberate act of economic self-sufficiency, ending dependence on foreign presses that had supplied Ottoman and early Republican currency. Printing domestically from the outset was a political priority, not a logistical convenience.
P#177 is among the earliest emissions from that Ankara facility, and surviving examples in any decent state are genuinely uncommon — early domestic production runs had inconsistent paper quality that has not aged well.