Description
Country or authority: Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
Year or date range: 1916 (AH 1327, regnal year 8)
Denomination: 20 Kurush
Composition: Silver
Ruler or portrait: Mehmed V Reşâd
Mint or mintmark: Constantinople (قسطنطينية)
Catalogue references: KM# 780
Obverse description: Conventional obverse, shown in the second photograph: imperial tughra with الغازي (el-Ghazi) at right; ٨ above سنة below, indicating regnal year 8. Twelve stars within a scalloped crescent border, with outer floral rosettes and beaded rim.
Reverse description: Conventional reverse, shown in the first photograph: عز نصره / ضرب في / قسطنطينية / ١٣٢٧ — ‘May he be victorious; struck in Constantinople; 1327’. Surrounding stars, scalloped crescents, floral rosettes and beaded rim.
