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250 Kuruş - Mehmed V Constantinople
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the elaborate tughra (imperial monogram) of Sultan Mehmed V, with the honorific epithet 'el-Ghazi' (the Warrior) inscribed to the right. The regnal year, rendered as year 8 in Arabic numerals, appears above the tughra. The entire central device is enclosed within a circular Arabic legend and framed by an ornate floral and foliate border characteristic of late Ottoman coinage. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Struck in the third year of Ottoman involvement in World War I, this issue belongs to a period when the empire's gold coinage was being hoarded almost immediately upon release — the wartime economy had collapsed public confidence in paper currency entirely. The Constantinople mint continued producing gold denominations partly to service foreign debt obligations and military procurement, not for domestic retail circulation.
KM#783 carries the regnal year calculated from Mehmed V's accession in 1909, a dating convention that can mislead collectors unfamiliar with Ottoman numismatic chronology. Mehmed V died in July 1918, just months before the Armistice of Mudros ended Ottoman participation in the war.