100 Kurus - Mehmed VI

Mehmed VI was the last reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and coins struck in his name span the final, catastrophic years of an empire that had already lost most of its territory. The 1918 armistice left Istanbul under Allied occupation, and by 1922 the sultanate itself was abolished by the Grand National Assembly. Coins bearing his tughra were minted against a backdrop of total institutional collapse.

KM#821 pieces struck toward the end of the date range circulated — if at all — in an economy being simultaneously dismantled and replaced by the nascent Turkish republic's own financial structures.