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20 000 Lira Purple ornament
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI 20000 YİRMİ BİN TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Twenty Thousand Turkish Lira) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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By 1995, Turkey's chronic inflation had pushed the 20,000 Lira note into near-irrelevance for everyday transactions — a denomination that had seemed substantial at issue was, within a few years, worth less than a single U.S. cent. The Central Bank's own Banknot Matbaası facility in Ankara had been printing successive high-denomination notes faster than the public could adjust to them.
This note belongs to a series that would eventually be superseded by the redenomination of 2005, when six zeros were stripped from the currency and the Yeni Türk Lirası replaced the old Lira entirely.