Description: This significant coin was minted in the first year of the long reign (1876-1909) of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The Sultan managed to hold the Ottoman Empire together in a time of tensions and disintegration by borrowing from abroad to build schools and railroads, as well as modernizing the army and navy. Keenly aware of the deposition of the prior Sultan, he employed a network of spies and secret police to maintain security. A practitioner of Sufism, he sought (but failed) to build Ottoman power internationally through a program of Pan-Islamism. He brutally suppressed an uprising in Bulgaria, and is blamed for several massacres of Armenians in the 1890s. A bomb attempt to assassinate him in 1905 failed when it detonated too soon. The Sultan was finally removed and confined in his palace in 1909 by an army coup headed by the future modernizer of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal. Abdul Hamid II displayed an array of talents in this private life, among them carpentry, opera composition, drawing, and wrestling (!). He had thirteen wives (four legal) and many children. This coin is lightly circulated, well-toned.
Price: 47 USD
Location: Berkeley, California
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
Denomination: 10 Qirsh
Composition: Silver
Year: 1876
Grade: Ungraded
Country/Region of Manufacture: Egypt
Certification: Uncertified
Modified Item: No
