100 Kurush Kaime (1877)
1877 ・ paper ・ 19th century ・ Ottoman Imperial Government
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A 100 Kurush banknote issued in 1877. This is not the first-generation Kaime of 1840–1862, but the second generation, issued the year after the state bankruptcy to finance a war. This single note is honest testimony to the fact that the lesson of paper money was forgotten in less than half a century.