Turkey AH 1223(29) 10 para

Stephen Album sale 37, lot 2346

This specimen was lot 2346 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $101.15. The catalog description^[1] noted, "TURKEY: Mahmud II, 1808-1839, AR 30 para, Kostantiniye, AH1223 year 29, PCGS graded MS63." Despite the auctioneer's description, no thirty para was struck after year 21. We have referred this example to the ten para of years 25-32. The weight and fineness are so low as hardly to matter.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 0.50-0.75 g, 0.170 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 595.

Source:

• 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.
• ^[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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