Ismail Hasim was one of the Turkish State Mint engravers who was sent to London in 1927 to assist with the newly printed Turkish Banknotes at Thomas de la Rue. He and calligrapher Ahmet was among the team sent along Ali Sami Boyar (*1).
[1] The story of the first Banknotes of the Turkish Republic, told through the articles of Cumhuriyet Newspaper (Cumhuriyet Gazetesine Göre Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin İlk Kâğıt Paralarının Basım Serüveni, Melek Öksüz, Tarih Dergisi – Turkish Journal of History, 81 (2023/3): 63-120
* Click here for the list of artists who contributed to Turkish Republic’s currency.
