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1 Kuruş - Murad V
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Value | 1 Kurush (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the elaborately calligraphed imperial tughra of Sultan Murad V, rendered in high relief with characteristic interlaced vertical strokes and looped base. The accession year 1293 AH appears in Arabic numerals below the tughra. Thirteen six-pointed stars are evenly distributed around the tughra within the inner field, forming a decorative border. The coin's outer rim features a continuous reeded or beaded border consistent with milled Ottoman coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ١ سنة (Translation: First year.) |
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Murad V reigned for just 93 days in 1876 before being deposed on grounds of mental incapacity — making any coinage issued under his name among the shortest-reigned sultans in Ottoman numismatic history. His removal was engineered in part by Midhat Pasha, the architect of the Ottoman constitution promulgated later that same year under his successor Abdülhamid II.
KM#710 is consequently scarce in any grade, with meaningful circulation essentially impossible given the reign's duration.