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The lira (Turkish: Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; [1] abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as well as one of the two currencies used in Syrian Opposition under the country's interim government. [2]
Lira is the name of several currency units. It is the current currency of Turkey and also the local name of the currencies of Lebanon and of Syria.It is also the name of several former currencies, including those of Italy, Malta and Israel.
1-lira note dated 1875 but not issued until 1880; it contains text in Persian, Turkish, French, Greek, Armenian and Arabic Lira of Mehmed V, 1911. The pound or lira (sign: LT; Ottoman Turkish: ليرا, romanized: līrā; French: livre turque; Greek: οθωμανική λίρα, romanized: othomanikí líra; Armenian: Օսմանյան լիրա, romanized: Osmanyan lira; Arabic: ليرة ...
A currency pair is the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency in the foreign exchange market.The currency that is used as the reference is called the counter currency, quote currency, or currency [1] and the currency that is quoted in relation is called the base currency or transaction currency.
Because of the chronic inflation experienced in Turkey from the 1970s through to the 1990s, the old lira experienced severe depreciation. Turkey has consistently had high inflation rates compared to developed countries: from an average of 9 lira per U.S. dollar in the late 1960s, the currency came to trade at approximately 1,650,000 lira per U.S. dollar in late 2001.
The Central Bank of Syria issued new LS 500 and LS 1,000 notes in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The reverse of the new LS 1,000 note features an image of a Roman mosaic painting discovered in Deir al-Adas. [28] President Bashar al-Assad was added to the LS 2,000 note in 2017. A LS 5,000 note was released in January 2021.
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The market reacted immediately, moving the Turkish currency to ca. 13.50 liras/USD, after peaking at about 12.30, in what was the widest swing in the exchange rate since 1983. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] 21 December - frenetic trading continues, with the exchange rate dropping to 11.0935 per dollar before going up to about 12.90 later in the morning and 12 ...