Catalog
1000 Lira
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası) |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Size | 201 × 124 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk within an ornate circular frame set to the right of centre, against a radiating guilloche background in blue-grey tones. A large blank oval watermark reserve occupies the left field, flanked by intricate knotwork panels along the lower margin. Denomination numerals appear in the lower corners in Western and Arabic-script forms, with the issuer title in Ottoman script across the upper centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | LIVRES TURQUES تورُكَُ ليرَاسُٖى 1000 ١٠٠٠ (Translation: 1,000 Turkish Lira) |
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Turkey's first central bank law passed in June 1930, but the Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası didn't formally open until October 1931 — which makes a note carrying a 1927 date and the TCMB name an immediate anomaly worth scrutinizing. Notes of this series were authorized and backdated or pre-dated as part of the transitional monetary framework bridging the old Ottoman-era instruments and the new republican banking system. De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for the majority of early republican Turkish issues.
The 1000 Lira denomination was the ceiling of the series — rarely handled by ordinary commerce.