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1 Livre Turque
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed predominantly in red and brown on a plain paper ground, with a large lobate central vignette panel surrounded by intricate guilloche rosette cornerpieces and a continuous ornamental border. The central panel is entirely occupied by several lines of Ottoman calligraphic text setting out the legal tender and penalty clauses, beneath which appears a single manuscript signature. |
| Reverse lettering | اشبو ورقه قانوناً تداوله مجاز اولوب هر كيم كه تزوير ايلرسه |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled body established in 1881 after the empire's sovereign default, staffed largely by French and British creditor representatives. That this same institution was still issuing emergency wartime currency in 1916 reflects how thoroughly the Ottoman state's finances had been penetrated by foreign interests, even as the empire fought on the side of the Central Powers against those same creditor nations.
Dèsèque & Dèvillin were a Paris-based printing house, though wartime conditions by 1916 make the actual production logistics of this series genuinely murky. Paper quality in late issues of the type is notoriously inconsistent.