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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 colapse 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)
- Tunisa (French Colony from 1881)

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
21-26	(1852-7)	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	1930(1968)	5, 10, 20, 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

British occupation WW1; Gallipoli, Palestine, Iraq

M1-2 (1915) 60, 120 piastres

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