Turkey AH 1115 akce
This specimen was lot 473 in Stephen Album sale 30 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2018), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "TURKEY: Ahmed III, 1703-1730, AR akçe, Kostantiniye, AH1115, partially double-struck, the last Turkish akçe of the old style, probably struck very briefly at the start of his reign, replaced by the milled type KM-136 of the same denomination, VF, RR." The akçe was the original Turkish silver coin of the great days of Sulieman the Magnificent but by the beginning of the eighteenth century had shrunk to a bangle suitable only for sewing onto a belly dancer's costume. It was minted as late as the reign of Osman III and then dropped.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.13-0.18 g, silver, this specimen 0.13 g.
Catalog reference: KM-unlisted.
- 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 30, featuring the George Anderson Collection of Tibetan Coins, the Dr. John W. Lund Collection of Swedish Coins and the Mike Edwards Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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- Coins and currency dated 1703