1000 Lira

Turkey contracted the American Bank Note Company for this series during the late 1940s, a period when domestic printing infrastructure was inadequate for high-denomination production. The postwar economic strain was real — Turkey had maintained an official neutrality during the war but paid heavily for it through inflation and supply disruption, and the 1000 Lira was a substantial sum in 1946 purchasing terms.

ABNC's engraving work on this issue is among the finer examples of their mid-century output for a Muslim-majority state, though the series is less studied than their Latin American contemporaries.