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5 Lira
| Issuer | Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) |
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| Year | 1927 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within an oval guilloche frame presents a grey wolf in repose before a rocky hillside rising to the Citadel of Ankara, with a radiating star above. To the right, a smaller inset vignette shows the Grand National Assembly building. The composition is framed by elaborate interlaced guilloche borders, with the denomination numeral 5 at each corner and bilingual inscriptions in Latin and Ottoman Arabic script across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 LIVRES TURQUES ٥ تورُكَُ ليرَاسُٖى تُّورْكِيَّة جُمْهُورِيَّة (Translation: 5 Turkish Lira, Republic of Turkey) |
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Turkey's earliest Republican-era notes were produced by Thomas De La Rue in London — a practical necessity given that the nascent republic had no domestic banknote printing infrastructure in the 1920s. This 5 Lira belongs to the first substantive emission under the Republic, issued through the Ministry of Finance before the Central Bank of Turkey existed; that institution wouldn't be established until 1930.
The series was authorized under the Law on the Issuance of Banknotes (1925), which transferred currency authority from the Ottoman-era Banque Impériale Ottomane. A deliberate break — on paper as much as in policy.