Co 917 (Late Ottoman para of Mahmud II from Egypt) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Not after (date)

1822

Not before (date)

1821

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins

Typological identification

Coin

Comparanda

AgoraIX, pp. 50-51, no. 287 (G. C. Miles)

Comparanda

Pere1968, p. 254, nos. 860-861

Comparanda

UsluBeyazitKara2010, p. 308, no. OC 30-101-00

Preservation comment

Wear: VG. Dense scratching from vigorous mechanical cleaning. Slight loss in weight from extensive abrasion on faces and edge

Published as

KenchreaiIII, p. 81, no. 1287 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Illegible”)

Axis (1-12)

9

Has denomination

Para

Numismatic Authority

Mahmud II (Ottoman sultan, 1808-1839)

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

12.0

Numismatic Mint

Miṣr al-Fusţāţ (Old Cairo)

Numismatic Weight (g)

15.0

Obverse Description

Tughra of sultan within banded and dotted borders

Obverse Inscription

محمود خان بن عبد الحميد مظفر دائماً

Obverse Inscription

Mahmūd Ḫān bin Abdulhamīd muẓaffer dāʾimā (traces) = “Mahmud Khan son of Abdulhamid, forever victorious“

Reverse Description

Arabic inscription in five lines within banded and dotted borders

Reverse Inscription

15 zuriba fi Misr [1]223 = “made in Egypt (in the) 15th year (of his reign beginning in AH) 1223”

Reverse Inscription

١٥ ضن ب فــي مصر ١٢٢٣ سنة

Belongs to Historical Period

Late Ottoman (Historical Period)

Material

Billon (Material)

Obverse Photograph

Reverse Photograph