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1 Livre Turque
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 1 Livre Turque |
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| Obverse description | The face is enclosed within an ornate multi-lobed cartouche framed by dense arabesque guilloche borders in muted tones. The Ottoman tughra occupies the upper centre above the large calligraphic denomination numeral '1', flanked by crescent-and-star vignettes; the date in Ottoman numerals (١٣٣١ / 1333 AH) and a serial number printed in red appear twice at the lower centre. The printer's imprint of Giesecke & Devrient is rendered along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The back is dominated by a large central text panel set within an elaborate multi-lobed cartouche formed by layered guilloche scrollwork executed in muted rose and green underprint tones. Several lines of Ottoman Arabic script within the panel set out the legal tender and redemption conditions of the note. A manuscript signature appears below the text block at centre. |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled financial body established in 1881 after the empire's 1875 debt default, giving creditor nations direct oversight of certain Ottoman revenues. That this institution, rather than a Ottoman state bank, issued emergency wartime currency in 1915 reflects the administrative chaos of the early war years and the fragmentation of Ottoman fiscal authority.
Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig printed the series, which created an immediate problem after the Allied naval blockade tightened: subsequent issues in this Pick sequence had to be sourced from different printers entirely, making the G&D-printed examples a distinct early production run.