| Description de l’avers |
Intaglio-printed right-facing portrait vignette of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk occupies the right half of the note against a salmon-red guilloche underprint, with the large denomination numeral '5000' at upper right within an oval frame and repeated at lower left. The centre carries the bold letterpress inscription 'BEŞ BİN TÜRK LİRASI' set within an elaborate floral and foliate multicolour underprint, flanked by ornate arabesques and a stylised floral column along the right margin. Two facsimile signatures appear below the central text block, labelled 'BAŞKAN' and 'BAŞKAN YARDIMCISI', with the serial number printed twice in dark ink. |
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| Description du revers |
The central vignette presents a detailed intaglio view of the Afşin-Elbistan thermal power station, rendered in brown with its characteristic hyperbolic cooling towers emitting steam against an industrial complex background, captioned 'AFŞİN - ELBİSTAN TERMİK SANTRALI' beneath. A geometric star-rosette medallion in red and green occupies the left margin, while an ornate tulip-and-arabesque cartouche in green and red fills the lower right corner. The denomination '5000' appears at upper right and lower left in red, with the bank name across the top in white letterpress on a coloured band. |
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By 1990, Turkish inflation had been running at triple-digit annual rates for years, and the 5,000 Lira note — worth roughly a dollar at issue — was already being outpaced before it left the press. The Central Bank's own printing facility in Ankara had been churning through ever-higher denominations since the late 1970s, a treadmill that would eventually produce the 10,000,000 Lira note before the 2005 redenomination wiped six zeroes from the currency entirely.
Pick 198 belongs to the seventh emission series. The sole listed security feature is a watermark — modest protection for a denomination that hyperinflation rendered obsolete within months of release.