20 Kurus - Mehmed VI Constantinople

Mehmed VI ascended to the Ottoman throne in July 1918 — less than four months before the Armistice of Mudros ended the empire's participation in World War I. These coins were struck as the empire was effectively dissolving around its new sultan, with Allied occupation forces entering Constantinople in November 1918. The mint continued operating through the chaos largely because the occupying powers had no immediate interest in disrupting the currency supply.

Mehmed VI was the last reigning Ottoman sultan, deposed by the Grand National Assembly in November 1922 and exiled on a British warship.