Watch List notes:

Ottoman Empire, Abdülhamid I AR 20 Para - 1/2 Kuruş. Qustantiniya (Constantinople) mint, dated AH 1187 and RY 14 = AD 1787/8. Toughra, mint and date below / Name and titles in four lines, regnal year to left. KM 388. 8.68g, 32mm, 11h.

Very Fine; pleasant cabinet tone. Excessively Rare; Kraus Mishler note that an issue of this year is "not confirmed", and there are no other examples on CoinArchives.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 10, 26 July 2014, lot 832;
Ex inventory of a German dealer.