Turkey AH 1327(10) 10 kurush

Steve Album sale 38, lot 2440

This specimen was lot 2440 in Stephen Album sale 39 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $48. The catalog description^[1] noted, "TURKEY: Mehmet V, 1909-1918, AR 10 kurush, Kostantiniye, AH1327 year 10, pleasing F-VF." This is the scarcest of the four listed dates (years 7-10). Earlier ten kurush (KM 751) lacked the title "el-Ghazi" next to the toughra.

Specification: 12.03 g, 0.830 fine silver.

Recorded mintage: 666,000.

Catalog reference: KM-772.

Source:

• Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
• 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 39, featuring the John Sylvester, Jr., Collection of Annamese Medals and Orders, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Links to:

• AH 1327(7) 10 kurush, with "el-Ghazi" to right of toughra
• AH 1327(10) 100 kurush
• Coins and currency dated 1918