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10 000 000 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 Lira (10 000 000 TRL) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette reproduces the Piri Reis world map of 1513, rendered in fine intaglio line work across the middle of the note, with a compass rose at lower left and rhumb lines radiating across the cartographic field. A period Ottoman sailing vessel appears at lower right in red intaglio print, while a ghost watermark portrait of Atatürk is visible as an underprint at centre right. The denomination and bank title are set in large violet and red letterpress numerals at the corners. |
| Reverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI ON MİLYON TÜRK LİRASI Piri Reis in Dünya haritası (1513) (Translation: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Ten Million Turkish Lira, Piri Reis World Map (1513)) |
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By the time this note entered circulation, Turkey's cumulative inflation since 1970 had rendered the lira nearly unmanageable as a counting currency — ten million of them was a mid-range transaction, not a large one. The Central Bank's own printing facility in Ankara had been producing increasingly large denominations throughout the 1990s simply to keep pace with a monetary system that peaked at 20,000,000 Lira before the 2005 redenomination stripped six zeroes and introduced the New Turkish Lira.
P#214 is a late-series artifact of that period, and the hologram strip was added precisely because high-denomination notes attract sophisticated forgery.