The Ottoman Empire Collection

Lot 3799    Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday)    The Ottoman Empire Collection

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,300

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH STYLE ALBUM C1918, probably a one-off, made specially to house the collection of 146 banknotes from the Ottoman Empire of Turkey, State Notes of the Ministry of Finance specimen issues (1914-18), crimson leatherette bound, with gold embossing on the front in Arabic, containing forty two card pages all hand bound into the album, many pages have backing cards with cloth strips at the corners for mounting of banknotes, a few with hand written labels denoting the specimen contained therein. Spine repaired, otherwise fine, in an old slipcase.

Sold together with a contemporary typed list showing the total numbers of notes printed for the series.

50,000 livres - 40 1,000 livres - 5,210 500 livres - 25,670 100 livres - 243,250 50 livres - 362,100 25 livres - 728,200 10 livres - 2,024,675 5 livres - 5,347,000 2-1/2 livres - 4,036,000 1 livre - 46,050,000 1/2 livre - 28,492,400 1/4 livre - 9,970,000 20 piastres - 21,875,000 5 piastres - 73,400,000

Giving a total of 208,588,450 livres printed and showing 156,000,000 in circulation with 52,588,450 in reserve.