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A holed silver one and a half piastre coin of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II Coin Type: Holed silver 1½ piastre coin of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, 1785-1839 CE.
Mint and Date: Constantinople, 1812 CE
Size and Weight: 27mm x 28mm, 2.63g
Obverse: Stylized signature of Mahmud II with decorative floral border.
Signature reads "Mahmud Khan son of Abdülhamid is forever victorious".
Reverse: Script including mint name and "durabi fi s(anat) 27" (struck in regnal year 27), with decorative floral border.
Provenance: antiquarica (eBay), April 2008
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BW Ref: 002 037 126
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