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The lira (Turkish: Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; [2] abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as well as one of the three currencies used in Syrian Opposition under the country's interim government. [1]
Currency substitution can be full or partial. Full currency substitution can occur after a major economic crisis, such as in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe. Some small economies, for whom it is impractical to maintain an independent currency, use the currencies of their larger neighbours; for example, Liechtenstein uses the Swiss franc.
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.
Under BSA, banks became legally obligated to report any deposits or withdrawals over $10,000. In all fairness to the government, $10,000 was worth a heck of a lot more in 1970 than it is today.
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.
The next day, the lira touched an all-time low of 4.98 lira for a US dollar. [106] Two days later, the lira recorded its biggest weekly slump in almost a decade. The benchmark Borsa Istanbul 100 Index fell the most since the foiled coup in 2016, with the selloff dragging price-to-estimated earnings valuations to the lowest in more than nine years.
Until the 1930s and the Turkish alphabet reform, the Arabic script was used on Turkish coins and banknotes, with پاره for para, قروش for kuruş and ليرا for lira (تورك ليراسي for 'Turkish lira'). In European languages, the kuruş was known as the piastre, whilst the lira was known as the livre in French and the pound in ...
The E-9 banknotes refer to the currency as "Turkish lira" rather than "new Turkish lira", and include a new ₺200 denomination. [3] The new banknotes have different sizes to prevent forgery. [ 4 ] The main specificity of this new series is that each denomination depicts a famous Turkish personality, rather than geographical sites and ...