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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3496246, member: 87809&quot;]neither I am an expert, but maybe this helps.</p><p>I do have 50 Kurush from this same sultan and when I was attributing it I found out that:</p><p>There are two requirements for proclaiming being a Sultan, khutba and money issuance in the name of the Sultan. The first thing to be done is to make a tugra in his name. Tugra can be described as a signature of the Sultan and it was made unique for each Sultan. In a tugra, there are the name of the emperor, name of his father and a prayer: For example, Abdülmecid Han bin Mahmut, el muzaffer daima ( Abdülmecid son of Mahmut, be victorious forever). The objects like tugra were used on coins of the Ottoman era and subsequent period in places beyond the boundaries of the country (Crimea, Sudan, Afghanistan, Indian, Princeshipa). It is very easy to separate them since their details had never come close to the delicacy of the Ottoman tugras. If there is a very fine tugra it is most probably an Ottoman coin and&nbsp; yours is a very fine tugra. </p><p>And a last note for tugra, the Turkish name tura (head / obverse) has been derived from the term tugra. </p><p>Next phase is to determine the date and mint. Although there is no face value indication on the coins, they all have an issuance date. There are two different dating system in Ottoman coin Kostantiniye ( Costantinople), Misir (Egypt) and Baghdad, there is the date of the accession of the Sultan and either on the obverse or the reverse, the year of the reign when it was issued is shown. The date of the accession is accepted as the first year and is called as &quot;cülüs&quot; i.e. AH 1255/5 shows the 5th reign year of Sultan Abdülmecid. In order to determine the exact date you can do this simple calculation: 1255+5-1=1259. Special care is necessary for the coins issued in 1293, since in this year there were three Sultans: Abdulaziz, Murat V whose era started, and Abdulhamid.</p><p>On your coin you have the tugra of Sultan Abdülmecid</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]926178[/ATTACH]</p><p>and the year on the reverse</p><p><a href="http://dateconverter.net/arabic/%D9%A1%D9%A2%D9%A5%D9%A5/?hl=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dateconverter.net/arabic/%D9%A1%D9%A2%D9%A5%D9%A5/?hl=en" rel="nofollow">١٢٥٥- Muslim Lunar (Hijra) [AH]</a>1255 (1850) you need to find out which year x is below the tugra on the obverse, and replace it in this equation</p><p>1255 + x - 1= </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;letter&quot; you are asking about is part of the Arabic script, which is the same as on my coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>عز نصره</p><p>ضرب في</p><p>قسطنطينية</p><p><br /></p><p>١٢٥٥</p><p><br /></p><p>here you can see it:</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]926184[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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