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500 Lira Without 'SERİ', Violet
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI 500 BEŞYÜZ TÜRK LİRASI 11 HAZİRAN 1930 TARİH VE 1713 NUMARALI KANUNA GÖRE ÇIKARILMIŞTIR GENEL MÜDÜR - GENEL MÜDÜR MUAVİNİ - EMİSYON VE VEZNE MÜDÜRÜ (Translation: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic, Five Hundred Turkish Lira, Issued pursuant to the Law dated 11 June 1930 and numbered 1713) |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a panoramic view of Istanbul's Hippodrome, with the ancient Egyptian Obelisk of Theodosius and the Serpent Column visible in the foreground and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) with its six minarets rising in the background. The scene is rendered in fine intaglio engraving within a violet guilloche border frame, with the denomination numeral '500' repeated in each corner. The issuing bank's name runs along the bottom margin in letterpress. |
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The "without SERİ" designation refers to an early print run of the third emission 500 Lira notes in which the series prefix indicator was omitted from the serial number block — a typographical oversight corrected in subsequent printings. These notes circulated during a period when Turkey's chronic inflation was beginning to erode the real value of the 500 Lira denomination significantly; within roughly a decade, the note would feel comparatively small.
Printed in-house at the Ankara banknote facility, which had been producing Turkey's currency since 1955, reducing reliance on foreign security printers.