Turkey AH 856 mangyr
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This specimen was lot 2216 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $505.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Mehmet II, 1451-1481, AE mangyr, NM, AH856, coiled dragon // royal legend, with the date written as 852 with retrograde "6" (AH852 was not within the reign of Mehmet II), VF, RRR." Mehmet II was the sultan who captured Constantinople from the Greeks and made it his capital.
Specification: copper, this specimen 1.36 g.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Catalog reference: A-1309.
- Uslu, Kaan, Beyazit, M. Fatih, and Kara, Tuncay. Ottoman Empire Coins, Istanbul: Mas Matbaacilik A.S., 2007.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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