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100 Lira
| Issuer | T.C. Merkez Bankası (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey) |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Currency | Old lira (1923-2005) |
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| Obverse description | A circular intaglio vignette at right contains a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in a suit, framed within an ornate octagonal border with guilloche work. To the left, an elaborate arabesque underprint panel with intricate floral and geometric motifs fills the centre field, with Ottoman-script text and handwritten authorization above. The outer border consists of a fine Celtic-style interlaced frame, with the denomination numeral '100' at upper left and lower centre, and series designation at upper and lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 ١٠٠ |
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Turkey's Central Bank was only established in 1930, which makes a 1927 date on this note almost certainly a misattribution in the catalog data — the issuer field and the year cannot both be correct. The preceding authority, the Ottoman Bank (Osmanlı Bankası), held note-issuing privileges until the new institution was formally chartered. Any 100 Lira note bearing the T.C. Merkez Bankası name predating 1930 warrants close scrutiny of the actual printed text before the entry is confirmed.
Thomas De La Rue printed the early Republican Turkish series, as they had done for Ottoman issues before them — continuity of printer across a dramatic political rupture was common and purely practical.