Turkey AH 1143 kurush KM-210
This specimen was lot 280 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $2,040. The catalog description[1] noted, "TURKEY: Mahmud I, 1730-1754, AR kurus, Kostantiniye, AH1143, initial VIII, nice luster, rotated reverse, an exceptional example! PCGS graded MS64. Finest graded at PCGS." During Mahmud's reign, mint officals did not use regnal years, so the coinage can only be dated to the accession year, AH 1143. The kuruş was forty paras. The regime's financial incompetence meant that the kuruş was never stable; it would shrink to the size of a half dime by 1839. This type is known with initials viii and xv.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: silver, 24.75-26.7 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-limonite, KM-210, Dav-323A.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1700-1800, 2nd Ed. London: Spink & Son, 1964.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
- Uslu, Kaan, Beyazit, M. Fatih, and Kara, Tuncay, Ottoman Empire Coins, Istanbul: Mas Matbaacilik A.S., 2007.
Links:
- Turkey AH 1143 20 para, mintmark 'ain
- Turkey AH 1143 1/2 zeri mahbub, mintmark mîm
- Turkey AH 1143(8) zeri mahbub
- Turkey AH1143 altin
- Turkey AH 1143 1-1/2 findik = 1½ altinlik.
- Turkey AH1143 3 altin
- Turkey AH 1143 5 altin
- Coins and currency dated 1730