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<p>[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 3092447, member: 84047"]Wow - yours is a very nice contemporary coin! Perhaps it was used to pay the Hungarian iron worker Urban, who, when Constantine XI could not afford his services, accepted the Sultan's offer to forge the cannon that overcame the walls of Constantinople. Perhaps my diminutive little coin was used to pay the defenders who shored up the battered walls at night once the shelling had ceased. I have no Ottoman coin contemporary with the siege, but only one from ca. 25 years later, of Mehmet II dated to 883 A.H. = 1478-79.[ATTACH=full]780665[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 3092447, member: 84047"]Wow - yours is a very nice contemporary coin! Perhaps it was used to pay the Hungarian iron worker Urban, who, when Constantine XI could not afford his services, accepted the Sultan's offer to forge the cannon that overcame the walls of Constantinople. Perhaps my diminutive little coin was used to pay the defenders who shored up the battered walls at night once the shelling had ceased. I have no Ottoman coin contemporary with the siege, but only one from ca. 25 years later, of Mehmet II dated to 883 A.H. = 1478-79.[ATTACH=full]780665[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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