100 — One Hundred Lira
The artwork
Front: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in a three-quarter view, engraved in blue, wearing a jacket and tie — the same portrait carried by every denomination of the series. Behind him the star and crescent of the flag, the star picked out in rose over a pale field of guilloche waves. The value stands large in words and figures, "100 YÜZ TÜRK LİRASI", above the citation of Law 1211 of 14 January 1970 and the two signatures.
Back: İtri — named on the note as Buhurizade Mustafa Efendi, 1640–1712 — the great Ottoman composer, bearded and in the tall conical Mevlevi cap. Around him the instruments of his music: an ud with a staff of notes running across it, a kudüm drum in warm yellow, and the outline of a seated Mevlevi playing the ney. Scattered treble clefs and quavers fill the remaining field.
In circulation
Issued from 1 January 2009 as part of the ninth emission, which restored the plain "Türk Lirası" after three years of the Yeni Türk Lirası notes it replaced note-for-note. The design remains in use; later printings carry the signatures of subsequent governors rather than those seen here.
Details
- IssuerTürkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası
- CurrencyLira
- DenominationOne Hundred Lira
- Collectedon the Türkiye journeys, 1995–2022
- SeriesE9 (ninth emission), dated 2009 on the face
- PrinterTürkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası Banknot Matbaası
- SignatureBaşkan (Governor) and Başkan Yardımcısı (Deputy Governor)
- WatermarkAtatürk portrait with electrotype 100