^#smrgSAHAF Banknotes of the Imperial Ottoman Bank: 1863 - 1914 -

This book attemps to present all the Banknotes and instruments of circulation issued by The İmperial Ottoman Bank from 1863 to 1914,within the framework of its previlege.The main reason behind this effort is complete the patchy,or sometimes altogether missings,information available to this day.İndeed,even though some of the general features and figures of the Bank's issue were already known,this information still remained extremely superficialty of thşs Knowledge,it should suffice to say that was no clear information as to tha exact dates and numbers of each issue.Figures and dates relating to the withdrawal,cancellation and incineration of these banknotes were even harder to come by.In short,it was clear that the only source source likely to bring some clarity to the matter was the bank's own records.The Ottoman Bank historicaly research project,initiated in 1997 with the colloboration of the ottoman bank and the Economis and Social History Foundation of Turkey,made it possible to unearth,one of the other,all the documents relating to the İmperial Ottoman Bank's role as a bank of issue.Today it is possible to study in great detail every single issue of the bank,to the point of following the fate of an individual banknote from issue to cancellation and increnation.This Book consist,therefore,of a systematic presentation of these sources and of the İnformation that can be derived from them.