5 — Five Lira
The artwork
Front: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in three-quarter profile, right of centre, engraved in fine purple line-work over a pale ground. A large grey star rises behind him, with the denomination set out twice — the numeral 5 and the words BEŞ TÜRK LİRASI — beside a stylised yellow rosette. Below, the legal text citing the law of 14 January 1970, no. 1211, the two signatures, and the bank's printing works with the year 2009.
Back: Ord. Prof. Dr. Aydın Sayılı (1913–1993), Turkey's pioneering historian of science, bespectacled and looking left, named in small type at his shoulder. Around him the emblems of his subject: a Rutherford-style atom with orbiting electrons above, a DNA double helix running down the centre, and faint planetary orbits washed across the field in mauve and pale green. Serial number twice, top right and lower left.
In circulation
The ninth emission group, introduced on 1 January 2009 when the word 'Yeni' was dropped and the New Turkish Lira notes of 2005 were withdrawn. This 5 lira design remains current, reprinted over the years with successive governors' signatures; the low-denomination note is increasingly displaced in daily use by the 5 lira coin.
Details
- IssuerTürkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası
- CurrencyLira
- DenominationFive Lira
- Collectedon the Türkiye journeys, 1995–2022
- SeriesE9 (ninth emission), dated 2009; issued under Law no. 1211 of 14 January 1970
- SignatureTwo — Başkan (Governor) and Başkan Yardımcısı (Deputy Governor)
- WatermarkPortrait of Atatürk in the plain left field, with electrotype 5
- Dimensions130 × 64 mm