TURKEY 1 kurush (11)83 AH (1771 AD)

DescriptionHis father was deposed in a coup in 1730 and locked up in a wing of the palace with his family, including Mustafa. The Ottomans had stopped killing royal brothers in the not too distant past. Almost three decades later it was his turn. He turned out to care about the people and governance, and introduced a number of reforms. He got into a war with Russia, which resulted in the loss of Crimea, Romania, and parts of Bulgaria.In the late 17th century the Ottoman government decided it needed its own denominational currency to decrease the country’s dependence on foreign coins, which had to be bought, rather than made.The earliest coins in the world were struck in Asia Minor, in modern Turkish territory. The Turks themselves arrived as nomads staring in the 9th centuriy AD. The Ottomans emerged as a dominant power in the 14th century. The Turkish Empire dissolved after World War I and a republic was established.“Middle East” is, generally spealing, Morocco east to Afghanistan, Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north.By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.