Turkey AH 1327(3) 5 kurush KM-809
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This specimen was lot 2387 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $130.90. The catalog description[1] noted, "TURKEY: Mehmet V, 1909-1918, AR 5 kurush, Salanik, AH1327 year 3, city visit issue, NGC graded EF to AU." Early in his reign, the sultan toured some of the cities of his domain. Presumably, the construction of railroads made this less arduous than in generations past. On the occasion of his visit to Salanik (now Salonica in Greece), commemorative two, five, ten, fifty and 100 kurush were minted and distributed.
Recorded mintage: 3,000.
Specification: 6.01 g, 0.830 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-809.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th 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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- AH 1327(3) 25 kurush
- AH 1327(3) 50 kurush
- AH 1327(3) 50 kurush, sultan's visit to Salanik
- AH 1327(3) 100 kurush
- AH 1327(3) 100 kurush, sultan's visit to Kosovo
- AH 1327(3) 100 kurush, sultan's visit to Salanik
- AH 1327(3) 100 kurush, sultan's visit to Manastir
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