5 Türk Lirası

This note belongs to the Fifth Emission Group issued by the Central Bank of Turkey, a series that ran through a period of persistent inflation and repeated devaluation that would eventually force a complete redenomination decades later. The TCMB's in-house printing facility in Ankara, the Banknot Matbaası, had been producing domestic currency since the late 1950s, reducing dependence on foreign security printers — a meaningful shift in operational autonomy for the bank.

The 5 Lira denomination was, by 1970, already of modest purchasing power. Heavily circulated examples are the rule rather than the exception.