Deciphering The Correct Year On Ottoman Empire Coins

Hello Nevol,

I do not have a paper krause catalog handy but have looked at the numista page, most importantly:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11088.html

I agree that the coins have a static date 1327 with the mint years being the characters you have pointed to. I see the first three as being regnal year 5 which looks like a circle with a dimple at the bottom or sometimes an upside down heart. The last has a regnal year of 3 which looks like a flag with an extra ripple.

According to the numista page these correlate to 1910 and 1912, which is different than you have written. It may be that numista is mistaken or you get your information from krause which uses different dates. Also the years in different cultures sometimes overlap two of our calendar years.

I would record the dates of these coin as 1327 / 3 or 1327 / 5 as I find that the simplest. But I understand that's not satisfying for some people who want to know what year that really means.

I assume the character to the left of the regnal date is a mintmark d/t numista describing it as a "date/mint letter" but don't know for sure.

-wheatiefan

Thanks for the extra info, I really do appreciate it.

No wonder I thought I was doing my head in trying to come to grips with it.