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500 Kurus - Mehmed VI Constantinople
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1918-1922 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | عز نصره ضرب في قسطنطينية ١٣٣٦ (Translation: May he be victorious Struck in Constantinople 1336) |
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Mehmed VI, the last reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issued this coin during an administration that was effectively a fiction — the empire had signed the Armistice of Mudros in October 1918, and real authority over Constantinople was parceled out among Allied occupation forces. The mint continued striking gold coinage partly as a matter of institutional inertia and partly to maintain the pretense of functional sovereignty during the long unraveling that followed defeat.
Mehmed was deposed and smuggled out of Constantinople aboard a British warship in November 1922, days after the Grand National Assembly formally abolished the sultanate.