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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 638860, member: 4703&quot;]1293AH began on January 28, 1876, and ended on January 15, 1877.&nbsp; The date is the accession year of Abdul Hamid II.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is KM#737, a silver 5 kurush issued from the 8th to 34th years of his reign (~1882-1908), and has the secondary date 17 beneath the toughra, which indicates an actual issue date of 1309AH (August 17, 1891-July 25, 1892).</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is distinguished from KM#720 issued in the first four years of his reign (also with the frozen accession date) by the &quot;el-Ghazi&quot; symbol to the right of the toughra.&nbsp; The early version has a flower there, but is otherwise the same design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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