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Turkey banknotes
Turkey paper money catalog and Turkish currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Ottoman Lira (Livre, Pound) = 100 Piastres (Kurush, Gurush) = 4.000 Para, till 1925
  • Turkish Lira = 100 Piastres, 1925-2005
  • Turkish Lira = (old 1.000.000 old Lira) = 100 Piastres, from 2005

• For issues after collapse of Ottoman Empire(1878-1918) see:
  • Albania, from 1913
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1878)
  • Bulgaria, from 1878
  • Cyprus (British Colony from 1914)
  • Egypt (British Colony from 1882)
  • Iraq, from 1922
  • Lebanon (French Mandate from 1920)
  • Libya (Italian Colony from 1912)
  • Montenegro, from 1910
  • Palestine, (British Mandate from 1917)
  • Romania, from 1878
  • Serbia, from 1878
  • Syria (French Mandate from1920)
  • Tunisia (French Colony from 1881)

• To purchase Turkish banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Ottoman Empire, till 1922
1-7	1256(1840)	50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000, 2.000 Kurush
8-9	1257(1841)	50, 100 Kurush
10-20	1259-68(1843-52)	50, 100, 250, 1.000, 5.000 Kurush
21-22	(1852)	10, 20 Kurush
23-24	(1853-4)	10, 20 Kurush
25-26	(1854-7)	10, 20 Kurush
27-32	1273(1858)	100, 250, 500, 1.000, 5.000 Kurush
33-35	1277(1861)	10, 20, 50, 100 Kurush
36-38	1277(1861)	20, 50, 100 Kurush
39-41	1277(1861)	50, 100 Kurush
42-45	1293(1876)	10, 20, 50, 100 Kurush
46-51	1293-5(1876-78)	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Kurush
52-53	1294-5(1877-78)	50, 100 Kurush
54-58	1297(1863)	200 piastres, 2, 5 medjidies
59-60	1290-9(1873-82)	1, 5 Livres
64-66	1326(1909)	5, 50, 100 Livres
67-8	1332(1914)	1, 1 Livres
69-70	1331(1915)	1, 5 Livres
71-74	1331(1915)	1/4, 1/2, 1, 5 Livres
75-78	1331(1915)	1/2, 2.50 Livres
79-83	1331(1912)	5, 20 piastres, 1/4, 1/2, 1 Livres
85-6	1332(1916)	1, 2.50 piastres
87-95	1332.08(1916)	5, 20 piastres, 1/2, 1, 5, 10, 50, 500, 50.000 Livres
96-103	1332.02(1916)	5, 20 piastres, 1/2, 1, 2.50, 10, 25, 100 Livres
104-7	1333(1917)	5, 25, 100, 1.000 Livres
108-115	1334(1918)	2.50, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Livres
116-118	(1917)	5, 10, 10 piastres; stamp currency
		Turkey Republic, from 1922
119-125	1341(1926)	1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 Livres
126-132	1930(1937)	2.50, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 lira
133-49	1930(1942-47)	50, 50 kurus, 1, 2.50, 10, 10, 10, 50, 50, 50, 100, 100, 100, 500, 500, 1.000, 1.000 lira
150-78	1930(1947-62)	2.50, 2.50, 2.50, 2.50, 5, 5, 5, 5, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 500, 500, 500, 1.000 lira
179-183 +187A	1930(1968)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 lire
185-191	1970	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 lire
192-210	1970(1984-97)	10, 10, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 5.000, 5.000, 10.000, 10.000, 20.000, 20.000, 50.000, 50.000, 100.000, 100.000, 250.000, 500.000, 1.000.000, 5.000, 000 lire
211-15	1970 (1998-2000)	250.000, 500.000, 1.000.000, 10.000.000, 20.000.000 lire
216-21	2005	1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 new lire
222-27	(2009)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 new lire

		British occupation WW1; Gallipoli, Palestine, Iraq
M1-2	(1915)	60, 120 piastres