Turkey AH 1115 5 para
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This specimen was lot 2328 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "TURKEY: Ahmed III, 1703-1730, AR 5 para, Kostantiniye, AH1115, initial #4, one flan defect by the rim (not damage, but as struck), VF to EF." Five para was one quarter of a kurush. Regnal dates were not added until later in the century so this coin may have been minted the entire reign.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.27-3.48 g, silver, this specimen 3.23 g.
Catalog reference: KM-144, UBK-30.
- 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 1687-1839 (AH 1099-1255), Istanbul: Anka Matbaacilik, 2010.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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