ABSTRACT

Everyone would like to have more money, right? Well, maybe not. In 2004 it was very easy to be a millionaire in Turkey-many times over. A million Turkish lira were worth about $0.75 in U.S. dollars. A 20 million-lira bill was worth about US$15. People routinely just put their thumb over the last six digits when looking at a value expressed in liras. Guinness World Records named the Turkish lira the world’s least valuable currency. But you could have lots of it!