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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 17719437, member: 78719&quot;]Ah very good - I did not know that last bit. I thought it interesting that at least according to one source the majority of these coins were used in payment to Ottoman civil servants that had not been paid by the Turkish Central government. I had not realized, even having lived in Cyprus as an adolescent that many of these &quot;workers&quot; stayed on and that Turks generally ran things on lower level up until completion of annexation in 1914.</p><p>I also wonder how far something less than 4000 pieces went in paying bills since that would be: 4000 x6 = 24,000 pence or 100 pounds sterling. And as alluded, I have not seen discussion of other &quot;normal&quot; sixpences being sent out &amp; imagine they were. Also what happened to those specimens that were returned to Britain? Were they then paid out again ever eventually or melted? </p><p>Possibly the OP coin was from this group, but no way of telling as there was no provenance in the Spink listing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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