Watch List notes:

EGYPT, Ottomans. Isma'il. As Khedive, AH 1284-1296 / AD 1867-1879. AV 500 Qirsh – Beşyüz kuruşluk (32mm, 42.51 g, 12h). Misr (Cairo) mint. Dually dated RY 1293 and RY 1 of Abdul Hamid (AD 1876). Large tughra; floral ornament to right; 500 and letter sin in Arabic below / zarb misr fi 1293 (struck Egypt [Cairo] in 1293) in Arabic; RY above be. Sultan –; Pere 973 (Abdul Hamid); KM 286; Friedberg 17. EF, traces of underlying luster, hairlines and circulation marks. Very rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louiis Teller, December 1984.