Turkey AH 1327(10) 100 kurush
Stephen Album sale 37, lot 709
This specimen was lot 709 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $386.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "TURKEY: Mehmet V, 1909-1918, AV 100 Kurush, Kostantiniye, AH1327 year 10, traces of mint luster, AU." This specimen is from a series struck in Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Muhammed V (r. 1909-18). This denomination was introduced during the rule of Sultan Abdul Mejid (r. 1839-61). Ottoman coins were dated using regnal years; the reverse bears the date AH 1327 (= 1909 A.D.) while the obverse bears the regnal year 9 (= AH 1335). The Hejira calendar uses a lunar year instead of a solar year, so its starting date moves from year to year. This type was issued AH 1333-1336 (1915-18); the SCWC prices them all the same. The last gold 100 kurush of this size was issued in 1929, under Ataturk's Republic.
Recorded mintage: unknown but not rare.
Specification: 7.22 g, 0.917 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM-776, Fr-160 (formerly Fr-57).
Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
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.
AH 1327(9) 100 kurush
AH 1336(1) 20 kurush
Coins and currency dated 1918
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Selections from Stephen Album sale 37