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250 Kurus - Abdülaziz Constantinople
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1861-1869 |
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| Weight | 18.04 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ٨ سنة ٢٥٠ (Translation: Year 8 250) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abdülaziz came to the throne in 1861 following the death of his brother Abdülmecid I, inheriting an empire already deep in debt to European creditors. The gold coinage of his reign was tied directly to the Ottoman financial crisis — the empire would take its first foreign loans in 1854 and by the 1870s was effectively bankrupt, making the gold issues of this earlier window among the last struck before fiscal collapse gutted the treasury's ability to maintain consistent high-denomination production.
The Constantinople mint struck these under the regnal year system keyed to his accession, so dating within the 1861–1869 window requires reading the die year carefully against his first regnal year of 1277 AH.