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50 Kurus - Mehmed VI
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1918-1922 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1336 (1918) ١ - ١٣٣٦ - 162,363 1336 (1919) ٢ - ١٣٣٦ - 346 1336 (1920) ٣ - ١٣٣٦ - 447 1336 (1921) ٤ - ١٣٣٦ - 200 1336 (1922) ٥ - ١٣٣٦ - 204 |
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Mehmed VI, the last reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issued coinage against the backdrop of total institutional collapse — the empire had lost the First World War, Constantinople was under Allied occupation, and the sultanate itself would be abolished by the Grand National Assembly in November 1922. Coins bearing his tughra were struck across a reign defined entirely by defeat and foreign military presence.
The .917 gold standard maintained here was a deliberate continuity with earlier Ottoman fractional gold issues, though the political authority backing it had effectively ceased to function well before the final abolition date.