5000 Lira

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 P#196A belongs to a short-lived emission series that was itself superseded within a few years as inflation pushed denominations into six figures.