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100 Livres Turques
| Issuer | Dette Publique Ottomane |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 178 x 116 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ١٠٠ ج-001874 وزارت دیونی ملیه بلدیسور |
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| Protection description | Dry embossed official seal applied to the obverse near the lower centre of the note. |
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The Dette Publique Ottomane — the Ottoman Public Debt Administration — was a European-controlled body established in 1881 after the empire defaulted on its foreign borrowings. That a debt management council staffed largely by foreign creditors was issuing wartime currency by 1917 says a great deal about the fiscal collapse of the late Ottoman state. With the treasury exhausted and the German alliance offering limited relief, high-denomination notes like this one were a stopgap against accelerating inflation that would only worsen after the armistice.
The embossed seal was the primary authentication measure — a fragile one given the counterfeiting pressures of the period.