Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Lira Green reverse
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1959 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of three women in traditional Turkish regional dress, each holding wicker baskets filled with hazelnuts, rendered in green on a green guilloche ground. The bank title runs across the top of the note, with the denomination numeral '5' and the legend 'TÜRK LİRASI' positioned to the left of the central vignette. A large unprinted circular watermark zone occupies the right portion of the reverse. |
| Reverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI 5 TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic / 5 Turkish Lira) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Turkey's second emission of 5 Lira notes — the first having appeared in 1937 — arrived at a politically turbulent moment. The 1959 date places this note squarely in the final year before the May 1960 military coup that overthrew the Menderes government, a period of acute economic stress marked by chronic inflation and IMF intervention. Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility had a long-standing relationship with the Merkez Bankası, producing several Turkish series through the mid-century decades.
The green reverse distinguishes this from the earlier printings of the same denomination, and gives collectors a quick visual differentiator within the P#155 group.