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1754, Ottoman Empire, Sultan Osman III. Silver 5 Para Coin. Scarce Type & Date!

Denomination: 5 Para Reference: KM-255 ($440 in VF!). Mint Place: Qustantiniya (Constantinople) Mint Period: 1754-1757 AD (AH1168-AH1171) Condition: Minor greenish deposits, otherwise XF! Diameter: 20mm Weight: 2,81gm  Material: Silver

Obverse: Thughra (state seal of the Sultan) above mint name (Qustantiniya) and accession year (1168 AH).

Reverse: Four lines of Kufic inscriptions. Privy mark (initial letter/numeral "ha" = III) left field of 3rd line.

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Osman III (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان ثالث‎ ‘Osmān-i sālis;‎ 2/3 January 1699 – 30 October 1757) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757.

  The younger brother of Mahmud I (1730–54) and son of Mustafa II (1695–1703) and Valide Şehsuvar Sultan, he was born at Edirne Palace.

His brief reign saw rising intolerance of non-Muslims (Christians and Jews being required to wear distinctive clothes or badges) and is also notable for a fire in Constantinople. His mother was Şehsuvar Sultan, a Serbian valide sultan.

Osman III lived most of his life as a prisoner in the palace, and as a consequence on becoming Sultan he had some behavioural peculiarities. Unlike previous Sultans, he hated music, and banished all musicians from the palace. He died at the Topkapı Palace, Constantinople.

Osman was responsible for a firman in 1757, that preserved the Status Quo of various Holy Land sites for Christians, Muslims, and Jews.