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250 Kuruş - Mehmed VI Constantinople
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Currency | Lira (1844-1923) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Mehmed VI came to power in July 1918 with the Ottoman Empire already in collapse, and these gold issues were struck under Allied occupation of Constantinople — British, French, and Italian troops controlled the city from November 1918 onward. That the imperial mint continued producing gold coinage at all under those conditions reflects less fiscal confidence than ceremonial inertia; the sultanate had perhaps two years left.
Mehmed was deposed and exiled by the Grand National Assembly in November 1922, the last reigning Ottoman sultan. He left aboard a British warship.