Post-medieval coin: Uncertain denomination of Ahmed I
Photographer
Winchester Museums Service, Robert Webley, 2012-02-21 19:36:05
Title
Post-medieval coin: Uncertain denomination of Ahmed I
Description
English: A slightly abraded earlier 17th-century copper-alloy coin of Sultan Ahmed I of the Ottoman Empire, Tripoli mint, dated AH 1012-1026 in the Islamic calendar (1603-1617 AD).
This coin has suffered some abrasions to its circumference and is no longer complete.
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Hampshire
Date
between 1603 and 1617
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1617-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 489958 Old ref: HAMP-3F08D3 Filename: HAMP-3F08D3AhmedIcoin.jpg
Credit line
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