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1 Livre Turque
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | دولت علیه عثمانیه اداره دیون عمومیه عثمانیه P601220 |
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| Reverse lettering | دولت علیه عثمانیه اداره دیون عمومیه عثمانیه |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a foreign-controlled body established in 1881 to manage Ottoman sovereign debt on behalf of European creditors. That it was issuing banknotes by 1917 reflects how severely the war had disrupted the empire's normal financial machinery. The Imperial Ottoman Bank, the standard note-issuing authority, could not keep pace with wartime currency demand.
Cotton paper was used across this series partly due to wartime material constraints affecting standard banknote stock. P#99 is among the more frequently encountered notes from this issuer, though paper fragility means intact examples are less common than survival rates might suggest.