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10 Kurus - Mehmed V Selanik mint
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1911 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | رشاد |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب سلانيك ١٣٢٧ |
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Mehmed V was a largely ceremonial figure by 1911, with real power held by the Committee of Union and Progress following the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. The Selanik mint — operating in what is now Thessaloniki, Greece — had been the CUP's own organizational heartland, making its role in striking coinage for the restored constitutional monarchy something of a political irony. The mint would lose its city entirely within two years: Thessaloniki fell to Greek forces in October 1912 during the First Balkan War, ending Ottoman minting operations there permanently.