Mehmed VI ascended the throne in July 1918 with the Ottoman Empire already militarily broken, and these gold issues were struck during the armistice period when Allied forces occupied Constantinople itself. The Mondros Armistice had been signed the previous October; by the time this coinage circulated, the empire it represented was being partitioned on paper by diplomats in Paris.
Mehmed VI would be deposed and exiled in November 1922, the last Ottoman sultan to reign. KM#826 represents one of the final gold issues of a six-century dynasty minting its coins under foreign naval guns anchored in the Bosphorus.
Mehmed VI ascended the throne in July 1918 with the Ottoman Empire already militarily broken, and these gold issues were struck during the armistice period when Allied forces occupied Constantinople itself. The Mondros Armistice had been signed the previous October; by the time this coinage circulated, the empire it represented was being partitioned on paper by diplomats in Paris.
Mehmed VI would be deposed and exiled in November 1922, the last Ottoman sultan to reign. KM#826 represents one of the final gold issues of a six-century dynasty minting its coins under foreign naval guns anchored in the Bosphorus.