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Intaglio portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at right centre, rendered in a three-quarter facing vignette against a fine guilloche underprint in multicolour pastel tones. To the upper left, a red-brown silhouette map of Turkey is set within a geometric frame, flanked by the denomination numeral in dark red at upper right. Two signature lines for the Başkan (Governor) and Başkan Yardımcısı (Deputy Governor) appear at lower left, dated OCAK 1997, above the printer's imprint. |
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An aerial intaglio vignette of Anıtkabir (the Mausoleum of Atatürk) in Ankara occupies the left and central portion of the note, rendered in dark olive-brown tones with fine line engraving that captures the monumental colonnaded hall, flanking galleries, and tree-lined ceremonial avenue. A decorative band of traditional geometric motifs runs along the lower edge, and the denomination appears in large numerals at lower left with the verbal equivalent in dark red at lower right. |
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By 1997, Turkish inflation had been running at triple-digit annual rates for the better part of a decade, forcing denominations that would have been unthinkable a generation earlier. The 5,000,000 Lira note is a direct product of that spiral — in 1970, a single U.S. dollar bought roughly 9 Lira; by the time this note was printed, the rate had collapsed past 100,000 Lira to the dollar.
Turkey's central bank eventually addressed the accumulated zeros through a redenomination in 2005, when one New Turkish Lira replaced one million old Lira, effectively erasing six zeros from the currency overnight.