250 000 Lira

Turkey's inflation through the 1990s was severe enough that a 250,000 Lira note, once an extraordinary sum, became routine pocket change before the decade closed. The Central Bank's own printing facility in Ankara — established in 1955 to reduce dependence on foreign printers — produced the entire P#207 series domestically, a point of some institutional pride during a period when the currency was losing value faster than new denominations could be absorbed by the public.

By 2001, six-zero denominations like this were rendered obsolete by crisis; the eventual 2005 redenomination stripped six zeros from the Lira entirely.