The First Gold Issue of Ottoman Constantinople

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1336. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Ottoman Empire. Mehmed II Fatih ('the Conqueror'). Second reign, AH 855-886 / AD 1451-1481. AV Sultani Altin (3.52 g, 12h). Qustantiniya (Constantinople) mint. Dated AH 882 (AD 1477/8). Ornamental couplet; all within linear and pearl border / Legend citing title and name of Mehmed II, invocative formula, mint formula, and AH date; all within linear and pearl border. Sultan -; Pere 79; Yapi Kredi 461; Kazan -; Album 1306. Superb EF, fully lustrous. Extremely rare and of immense historical importance.