Catalog
5000 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Size | 140 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed right-facing bust portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk occupies the right half of the note against a multicolour guilloche underprint in olive, pink and teal tones. The centre carries the bold letterpress denomination legend BEŞ BİN TÜRK LİRASI beneath an ornate tulip-and-arabesque vignette, flanked by a serial number at upper left and rosette numerals at lower left and lower right. Two facsimile signature lines labelled BAŞKAN and BAŞKAN YARDIMCISl appear at the lower centre, with the printer's imprint along the very bottom margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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By 1981, Turkish inflation had been running hot enough that 5,000 lira — a denomination unthinkable a decade earlier — was already losing ground against daily prices. The military coup of September 1980 had handed the government emergency economic powers, and the Central Bank was under pressure to keep denominations cycling upward simply to maintain functional liquidity in commerce.
The Banknot Matbaası in Ankara had been printing Turkey's own notes since 1955, ending decades of reliance on foreign printers. P#196A belongs to a short-lived emission series that was itself superseded within a few years as inflation pushed denominations into six figures.