Bank notes from Turkey Turkiye
Until the 1856 Ottoman Empire, the Treasury operations, money and credit transactions and the trade in gold and foreign currencies were executed in varying degrees by the Treasury, the Mint, jewelers, money lenders, foundations and guilds. In 1847 the Ottoman Government allowed Galata Bankers to set up the Bank of Dersaadet as a bank which assumed the external payments of the Ottoman Empire for the first time. In 1856, the Ottoman Bank was established jointly with French and English capital. The bank functions as a clearing house for Ottoman Public Debt Administration, which The interest and principal payments regarding domestic and foreign debts would be made by the Ottoman Bank only. In 1863 partly assumed the functions of contemporary central banking after becoming a state bank under the name of "Imperial Ottoman Bank". The Imperial Ottoman Bank enjoyed the right and monopoly of issuing banknotes. The Government relinquished the right to issue banknote within the period of privilege and to grant permission to other institutions in this regard as well. Equipped with this power, the Bank would act as the Treasurer of the State, collect the State revenues, perform the payments of the Treasury and discount Treasury bills as well.
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