10 Para - Abdulaziz

Abdülaziz came to the Ottoman throne in 1861 following the death of his brother Abdülmecid I, inheriting an empire already deep in debt from Crimean War borrowing. The copper para coinage of his early reign was issued under monetary reforms that had been grinding forward since the Tanzimat period, attempting to rationalize a currency system that had been debased and fragmented for decades. These small copper pieces circulated heavily across Anatolia and the Balkans, absorbing the kind of wear that leaves most survivors in well-circulated condition.