CNG 88, Lot: 1799. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1505. 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. AR 10 Akçe (22mm, 8.75 g, 5h). Kostantiniye (Constantinople) mint. Dated AH (8)75 (AD 1470). “Mehmed, son of Murad Khan. May God make his sultanate everlasting. Struck in Kostantiniye. Year 875,” in Arabic / “Sultan of the two continents, and Khakhan of the two seas. The Sultan, son of the Sultan,” in Arabic. Damali 7-K-G1a-875; Sultan -; Pere 82; Album 1307. VF, lightly toned, a few cleaning marks under the tone. Very rare.

Ex Album 9 (11 December 2010), lot 84.