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20 Para - Abdülhamid II
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Composition | Silver (.830) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue corresponds to the early years of Abdülhamid II's suspension of the Ottoman constitution — parliament had been prorogued in 1878 and would not reconvene until the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. The tiny silver fraction circulated in an empire managing chronic fiscal strain, with the Public Debt Administration established by European creditors just one year after this coin was struck.