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New Member
Costa Rica
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Hello there, I have a Turkish/Ottoman coin that I can't seem to identify. I think it's KM#590 100 Para but I want to be sure. Here are a couple of pictures to see if any of you can help me be sure. Thank you in advance! Saludos desde Costa Rica   Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi, carlosguardia, welcome to the forum!
KM#590 100 Para goes as far as regnal year 25, yours is 26, so that would be the ninth series, KM# 598, when it got debased even further (from .220 silver in KM#590 to only .170). No wonder it doesn't even look silver!
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New Member
 Costa Rica
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Great, thank you so much! So what year is this coin from then? What is 1223 in Gregorian?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've checked my large world coin book and the exact coin I cannot find but the year 1223 is from circa 1808 AD.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Accession date [of sultan Mahmud II] is AH 1223, about AD 1808 indeed, but the regnal year on your coin is 26, so it dates it AD 1833 (1808 + 26 - 1).
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 Australia
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"1223" is the year the Sultan came to power; regnal year 26 is the actual date of the coin. Converting the date, we get 1223 + 26 - 1 = 1248, the actual AH date of issue. This converts to AD 1832, more or less.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Mexico
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Great coin, from the looks on the staples someone has been loving it for a long time vs being found in the $0.50 bin...then agian, the humidity down there might account for the staples after only a couple of months.
Where'd you find this beauty?
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New Member
United States
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The coin appears to be a 36 millimeter 5 Kurush. You might like to know that the side without the date bears the tughra (the caligraphic name and titles) of Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey.
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