Catalog
5 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Currency | Old lira (1923-2005) |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI BEŞ TÜRK LİRASI 5 TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic, Five Turkish Lira) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette, executed in intaglio, presents three women in traditional regional dress each holding a wicker basket filled with hazelnuts, set against a light guilloche ground in violet-purple tones. A large circular area to the right accommodates the Atatürk watermark, while the bank title runs along the top within a decorative border frame. The numeral "5" and denomination text appear to the left. |
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The P#174 belongs to Turkey's fifth emission series, which ran through the 1960s under the Central Bank's successive governor tenures. The 5 Lira denomination during this period had a rough existence in circulation — the Turkish lira was under sustained inflationary pressure throughout the decade, and low-denomination notes were handled heavily and discarded quickly, making genuinely uncirculated survivors harder to source than the catalog frequency suggests.
Turkey's banknote printing at this time was handled domestically by the Devlet Matbaası, a shift from earlier reliance on foreign security printers like De La Rue.