Get Oriented With Turkish Money

Turkish Economy and Turkish Money In Turkey, the monetary unit is Turkish Lira (TL). The coinage is in 5 Kurus, 10 Kurus, 25 Kurus, 50 Kurus and 1 Turkish Lira. On the other hand bank notes are of 5 TL, 10 TL, 20 TL, 50 TL, 100 TL and 200 TL. The exchange rate changes … Continue reading “Get Oriented With Turkish Money”

Turkish Money
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Turkish Economy and Turkish Money

In Turkey, the monetary unit is Turkish Lira (TL). The coinage is in 5 Kurus, 10 Kurus, 25 Kurus, 50 Kurus and 1 Turkish Lira. On the other hand bank notes are of 5 TL, 10 TL, 20 TL, 50 TL, 100 TL and 200 TL. The exchange rate changes frequently. You can check the value of Turkish money in USD and Euro looking at the currency exchange widget on the right side.

Turkish lira symbol
Turkish lira symbol

Below you can see how the coinages and bank notes look like. It might be helpful before you visit Turkey to get oriented with Turkish money. Especially be careful to distinguish 5 TL and 50 TL since the colours or those are very similar to each other and you might accidentally give 50 TL when you are expected to give only 5 TL.

5 kurus
5 kurus
10 kurus
10 kurus
25 kurus
25 kurus
50 kurus
50 kurus
1 Turkish Lira
1 Turkish Lira
5 Turkish Lira
5 Turkish Lira
10 Turkish Lira
10 Turkish Lira
20 Turkish Lira
20 Turkish Lira
50 Turkish Lira
50 Turkish Lira
100 Turkish Lira
100 Turkish Lira
200 Turkish Lira
200 Turkish Lira
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