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1 000 000 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 1 000 000 Lira (1 000 000 TRL) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at centre-right, rendered in shades of violet and dark blue against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The bank title appears in a crimson band across the upper left, with the denomination numeral 1000000 rendered twice in contrasting sizes — once in dark overprint at centre and again in large letterpress figures at lower left alongside the legend BİR MİLYON. The TCMB logo vignette, legal authority clause, and two facsimile signatures appear at lower right, with the serial number printed twice in black. |
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| Reverse description | An aerial photographic vignette of the Atatürk Dam spanning the Euphrates River, situated on the Şanlıurfa–Adıyaman provincial border, occupies the central field in blue and green tones against a pale yellow underprint. At lower left, a circular TCMB emblem is set within a geometric star-pattern panel in mauve and grey. A vertical security strip at the right margin carries repeating microtext BİR MİLYON and TCMB interspersed with wheat-ear motifs, flanked by additional denomination numerals in contrasting colours at each corner. |
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By 2002, Turkish banknote denominations had spiraled to the point where a one-million lira note was effectively worth less than a single US dollar — a direct consequence of chronic inflation that had persisted since the late 1970s and accelerated badly through the 1990s. This was among the last wave of pre-redenomination high-denomination notes before Turkey's monetary reset: on 1 January 2005, one New Turkish Lira replaced one million of the old, wiping six zeros off the currency in a single administrative stroke.
Printed entirely in-house at the Central Bank's own Ankara facility, the series reflects Turkey's long-standing policy of keeping banknote production under sovereign control rather than contracting abroad.