Iraq (1730) mangir
This specimen was lot 1852 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $510. The catalog description[1] noted, "IRAQ: Mahmud I, 1730-1754, AE mangir, Baghdad, ND, toughra of Mahmud I // mint inscription, with the final "d" of baghdad below the rest of the mint name, thus filling the area were Kabaklarli's type shows the date 1143, nice strike for this mint, good Fine, RR, ex Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection. Sold on our Auction 7, lot 210." The SCWC lists KM 39 (copper five para) and KM 39a (silver five para) for this ruler, both very scarce but this coin doesn't bear any resemblance to either. Wikipedia comments, "The manghir (pl. manghirs; Ottoman Turkish: منغر; Turkish: mangır) was an Ottoman copper coin introduced first during the reign of sultan Murad I (r. 1360–1389)." We presume that mangir was Turkish for falus or paisa.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper, this specimen 2.31 g.
Catalog reference: Kabak-01var.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Uslu, Kaan, Beyazit, M. Fatih, and Kara, Tuncay. Ottoman Empire Coins, Istanbul: Mas Matbaacilik A.S., 2007.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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