76

TURKEY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Value

1/2 Livre Turque
Issued by

Banque Impériale Ottomane (Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmanye Bankasi)
Date

18.10. RC1331 / 31.10.1915 (cut in half 1916)*
* error in catalog, listing "AH".
During the period of this note the Ottoman Empire did not use the lunar AH (Anno Hegirae, Year of the Hijira) calendar, but was dating according the RC (Roman Calendar, Rumi Takvim), which was based on the solar year. This was a calendar only used for fiscal purposes in Turkey, and which was subject in these days to two calendar reforms.
Printer

Giesecke & Devrient, Germany

 

 
76L

left half of TURKEY P-73

76R

right half of TURKEY P-73
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