Egypt AH 1277(12) 20 para
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This specimen was lot 74538 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "EGYPT. Ottoman Empire. 20 Para, AH 1277 Year 12 (1871). Misr (Cairo) Mint. Abdul Aziz. PCGS MS-65." This type was years 10 thru 15 and has a very modest catalog value. Many survivors are holed. There was also a copper twenty para (KM 244/KM 246) but its production seems to have ceased in year 10. Forty para made a qirsh.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.65-0.70 g, 0.833 fine silver, 15.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-247a.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Uslu, Kaan, Beyazit, M. Fatih, and Kara, Tuncay. Ottoman Empire Coins. Istanbul: Mas Matbaacilik A.S., 2007.
- Valentine, W.H., Modern Copper Coins of the Muhammadan States, London: Spink and Sons, 1911.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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- AH 1277(10) copper 20 para, no flower
- AH 1277(10) copper 20 para, flower
- AH 1277(10) silver 20 para
- AH 1277(12) silver 10 para
- AH 1277(12) qirsh
- AH 1277(12) 2½ qirsh
- AH 1277(12) silver 5 qirsh
- AH 1277(12) gold 5 qirsh
- AH 1277(12) gold 10 qirsh
- AH 1277(12) 25 qirsh
- AH 1277(12) 100 qirsh
- Coins and currency dated 1871