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20 Kuruş
| Uitgever | Ottoman Imperial Treasury |
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| Jaar | 1854 |
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| Waarde | 20 Kuruş |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is printed in black on cream paper and is dominated by a large radiating sunburst vignette at the top centre, enclosing an oval frame. The denomination numeral '20' is inscribed in large Ottoman script below the sunburst, surrounded by multiple lines of Ottoman Turkish text stating the note's legal tender status and value. A circular official tughra seal of the Imperial Treasury is applied at the lower centre, and the entire composition is enclosed within an ornate typeset border with additional marginal inscriptions on all four sides. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | دولت علیه نک نقد مقامنده اولور مبلغ ٢٠ اوراق نقدیه دولت علیه یدل بك یكروپ عرش فتاوا ماتو رقه معتبرة دولت علیه |
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The 1854 Ottoman kaime notes emerged from fiscal desperation. The Crimean War had begun, and the Imperial Treasury lacked the hard currency to fund both military operations and routine government expenditure. These paper obligations — kaime — were not issued by a central bank, because no such institution yet existed in Ottoman financial infrastructure. The Imperial Treasury issued them directly, which is precisely why confidence in them was chronically fragile.
Counterfeiting was a persistent and well-documented problem with the kaime series, serious enough that the government attempted multiple reissue and recall cycles throughout the 1850s. An official seal was the primary — and by modern standards, woefully inadequate — security measure.