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Electronic Auction 409  8 Nov 2017
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Lot 891

Estimate: 50 USD
Price realized: 1000 USD
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ISLAMIC, Ottoman Empire. Mehmed II Fatih ('the Conqueror'). Second reign, AH 855-886 / AD 1451-1481. AR Akçe (10mm, 0.90 g, 4h). Konstantiniye (Constantinople) mint. Dated AH 865 (AD 1460/1). Naskh legend: Mehmed bin Murad han azze nasruhu 865 (Mehmed son of Lord Murad, may his victory be glorious, 865); star in center / Naskh legend: khallada mulkahu duriba be Konstantiniye (May his kingdom flourish, struck in Konstantiniye); star in center. Srećković 92; Sultan type 108, 687; Album 1308.2. Good VF, toned.

From the BRN Collection. Ex Album FPL 261 (April 2011), no. 831042.

This akçe is from the first coinage that Mehmed struck in the former Byzantine capital Constantinople after he finally defeated them there in 1453.
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