Katalog
| Emittent | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Jahr | 2001 |
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| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Rectangular |
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| Designer | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The right half of the obverse is dominated by an intaglio portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in three-quarter view against a fine guilloche underprint. To the left, a large globe vignette rendered in teal and grey tones is overlaid with an olive branch sprig, together symbolising Turkey's international outlook. Denomination numerals appear in large dark red figures at lower left and in a teal panel at upper right, with the issuing authority's name running along the top margin. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Unterschrift(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Watermark, Security thread |
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| Anmerkungen |
By 2001, Turkish inflation had been running at triple-digit annual rates for most of two decades, forcing the central bank to issue denominations that would have been unthinkable in 1970. The 20,000,000 Lira note is a direct artifact of that spiral — a single banknote worth less than fifteen US dollars at issue. The print run of just over 12 million is modest by Turkish standards of the period, likely reflecting the note's brief useful life before still-larger denominations rendered it inconvenient for everyday transactions.
The redenomination came in 2005, when six zeroes were stripped and the Yeni Türk Lirası replaced the old currency at 1,000,000:1.