ALTMISLIK: COIN OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Altmislik, 1767: Ottoman Empire
Mustafa III (Ottoman Turkish "مصطفى ثالث") — 26th sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774.
Date on coin: AH 1171 (AH: Latin "Anno Hegirae" — "the year of the Hijra"; Islamic calendar) = 1758 (Gregorian calendar).
All coins of this type have the first year of the Sultan's reign (AH 1171 or 1758 according to the Gregorian calendar) emphasized on the obverse, while on the reverse, the third line of the legend indicates the actual year of minting of the coin in the format "1", "2", "3" ... "80", "81" as the last digits of the year according to the Islamic calendar (i.e., respectively, AH 1171, 1172, 1173 ... 1180, 1181 years or according to the Gregorian calendar characteristic of Western countries — 1758, 1759, 1760 ... 1767, 1768).
السلطان مصطفى بن احمد خان دام ملكه ضرب في اسلامبول: Sultan Mustafa bin Ahmed Khan (son of Ahmed Khan), may his reign last. Was struck in Constantinople.
١١٧١: 1171.
سلطان البرّين و خاقان البحرين السلطان ابن السلطان: Sultan of the two lands and Khagan (Emperor) of two seas. Sultan, son of the Sultan.
٨۰: 80 (AH 1180 or 1767).
Constantinople Mint (modern-day Istanbul, the capital of the Türkiye).
- Silver (0.465): 41 mm - 26.82 g
- Reference price: 77$
COIN ALTMISLIK — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- OTTOMAN EMPIRE (18th-19th centuries): altmislik = 60 para = 2 zolota
ALTMISLIK as coin name.
Altmislik (Altmişlik) is a large historical low-grade silver coin of the Ottoman Empire. It was minted for almost a century, starting from the middle of the 18th century.
This coin was equal to 60 para or 2 zolota (in numismatic catalogs, altmislik is often called that — double zolota).
Coins of this denomination are known from several sultans of the Ottoman Empire — Mustafa III, Abdulhamid I, Mustafa IV, Mahmud II and Abdulmejid I.
All types of altmislik coins have a common feature — low-grade silver (the so-called billon) used for minting. However, there is an obvious difference: 18th-century coins are radically heavier than 19th-century altmisliks — 26-30 grams versus about 3 grams, respectively.
The name of the altmislik coin comes from the Turkish term "altmış", which translates as "sixty" (equal to the denomination of 60 para).
By the way, other Ottoman coins of the same historical period can be put in the same row with this coin, for example: yuzluk, which was equal to 100 para
