Catalog
500 Lira Brown
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI SERİ B5 500 BEŞYÜZ TÜRK LİRASI 11 HAZİRAN 1930 TARİH VE 1715 NUMARALI KANUNA GÖRE ÇIKARILMIŞTIR UMUM MÜDÜR BAŞKAN MUAVİNİ EMİSYON VE VEZNE MÜDÜRÜ 500 TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic, Series B5, 500, Five Hundred Turkish Lira, Issued pursuant to Law No. 1715 dated 11 June 1930, General Manager, Deputy Governor, Director of Issue and Treasury, 500 Turkish Lira) |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 TÜRK LİRASI TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI 500 (Translation: 500 Turkish Lira, Central Bank of the Turkish Republic, 500) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson's relationship with the Turkish central bank stretches back decades, and this 500 Lira note from 1953 is among the more substantial denominations they produced for Ankara during the early republic's aggressive industrialization push under Adnan Menderes. The choice to retain a British security printer well into the 1950s reflected both established trust and Turkey's limited domestic printing capacity at the denomination's scale.
P#170 is notably scarcer in circulated grades than its face value might suggest — high-denomination notes of this period were frequently hoarded rather than spent, yet paper quality and storage conditions in Turkish households of the era were unforgiving. The watermark remains the sole mechanical security feature, which was already conservative practice by 1953 standards.