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1 Para - Abdülmecid I Constantinople
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1846-1859 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the elaborate tughra of Sultan Abdülmecid I, rendered in fine calligraphic relief, flanked to the right by a decorative floral spray with budding branches. The regnal year in Arabic numerals appears in the lower field below the tughra. The coin is framed by a continuous beaded border running along the full circumference. |
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| Mintage | 1255 (1846) ٨ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 1,000,000 1255 (1847) ٩ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 375,000 1255 (1848) ١٠ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 1,250,000 1255 (1849) ١١ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 165,000 1255 (1850) ١٢ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 1,600,000 1255 (1851) ١٣ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 800,000 1255 (1852) ١٤ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 300,000 1255 (1853) ١٥ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 700,000 1255 (1854) ١٦ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.1 (thick planchet) - 3,400,000 1255 (1854) ١٦ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.2 (medium planchet) - 1255 (1855) ١٧ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.2 (medium planchet) - 800,000 1255 (1856) ١٨ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.2 (medium planchet) - 4,500,000 1255 (1856) ١٨ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.3 (thin planchet) - 1255 (1857) ١٩ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.3 (thin planchet) - 2,500,000 1255 (1859) ٢١ - ١٢٥٥ KM#665.3 (thin planchet) - 2,000,000 |
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These copper paras were struck across a thirteen-year window that overlapped with the Tanzimat reform period, during which Abdülmecid I was systematically restructuring Ottoman administration, law, and finance under pressure from both European creditors and internal modernizers. The Imperial Mint at Constantinople was itself reorganized during this era, with French technical assistance brought in to improve die production and press machinery — meaning coins struck early and late in this run can show measurable differences in relief and surface quality tied directly to that equipment transition.