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5 Lira
| Issuer | Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Value | 5 Lira (5 TRL) |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio portrait vignette of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in formal attire with white bow tie is set to the right of the note against a fine guilloche underprint in violet-purple tones. The bank title and denomination are rendered in letterpress across the upper and central areas, framed by ornate geometric border work. Serial numbers appear in two positions, with the numeral "5" repeated in the upper corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYET MERKEZ BANKASI BEŞ TÜRK LİRASI 5 TÜRK LİRASI (Translation: Central Bank of the Turkish Republic, Five Turkish Lira) |
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The P#174 belongs to Turkey's fifth emission series, which ran through the 1960s under the Central Bank's successive governor tenures. The 5 Lira denomination during this period had a rough existence in circulation — the Turkish lira was under sustained inflationary pressure throughout the decade, and low-denomination notes were handled heavily and discarded quickly, making genuinely uncirculated survivors harder to source than the catalog frequency suggests.
Turkey's banknote printing at this time was handled domestically by the Devlet Matbaası, a shift from earlier reliance on foreign security printers like De La Rue.