136

TURKEY
Value

50 Türk Lirası
Issued by

Türkiye Cümhuriyet Merkez Bankası
Date

L. 1930
Printer

Thomas de la Rue, London
Remark

not issued
126.000 pieces of this note were destroyed in an air attack on London on 11.09.1940.
The remaining notes were safely delivered to the Central Bank of Turkey, which decided not to issue them.
These notes (along with the 50-kuruş - see TURKEY P-133 and 100-Türk lirası notes - see TURKEY P-137) were pretrieved from the sunken SS "City of Roubaix" in the port of Piraeus (Greeece).

 President Mustafa İsmet İnönü

Angora goats
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