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Para - Abdülhamid I Kostantiniyye mint
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1773 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Arabic inscription arranged across the field, recording the mint formula and regnal year. The legend reads 'darebe fi Kostantiniye' (struck in Constantinople), indicating the Kostantiniyye mint, with the hijri date 1187 inscribed in the lower portion of the field. A regnal year (sene) indicator appears in the upper register. The inscription is executed in a plain Ottoman script, typical of small-denomination billon coinage of the period, with the flat, roughly circular flan showing characteristic hammered surface texture. |
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| Mintage | 1187 (1773) ۱٠ - 10 - 1187 (1773) ۱۱ - 11 - 1187 (1773) ۱٢ - 12 - 1187 (1773) ۱٣ - 13 - 1187 (1773) ۱٤ - 14 - 1187 (1773) ۱٥ - 15 - 1187 (1773) ۱٦ - 16 - 1187 (1773) ٨ - 8 - 1187 (1773) ٩ - 9 - |
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Abdülhamid I came to the throne in 1774 after spending over forty years confined in the kafes — the Ottoman palace system of dynastic isolation — making him one of the least prepared sultans to inherit an empire in open crisis. His first years coincided with the punishing aftermath of the 1768–1774 Russo-Ottoman War, which ended with the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca and significant territorial concessions to Catherine the Great. Currency debasement was already entrenched policy by this point; the billon content of small-denomination issues like this para reflects decades of fiscal erosion rather than any single emergency decision.