Turkey 1 and 2 Kurush 1839 to 1861

You can easily see the Hijri date 1255AH near the bottom of the side with several lines of Arabic writing and without the toughra (the right side in our picture). The toughra is the large central figure with the three almost-vertical lines that sweep downward, circling, and to the right on the front of the coin. Below the toughra is a small numeric figure which gives the year after 1255AH the coin was minted. So each of these coins have an accession year of 1255AH, the year King Abdul Mejid started his reign, plus a regnal year, the number of years into his reign that the coin was minted. 1255AH is 1839AD.

These dates are important, because some regnal years are more valuable than others. We have a similar coin with accession year 1293AH at this CoinQuest link.

When preparing this page, we noted that auction results for these coins in good condition exceeded the catalog values by quite a bit. For worn coins the catalogs are correct. For well preserved and fully uncirculated coins, the catalogs are low. We have adjusted our listings accordingly.

1 KURUSH (about 14 mm diameter)
worn: $2 US dollars approximate catalog value
average circulated: $10
well preserved: $50
fully uncirculated: $200
1 kurush dated 1255AH with regnal year 6 are quite rare; multiply these values by four
1 kurush dated 1255AH with regnal years 17 and 23 are rare, multiply these values by two

2 KURUSH (about 18 mm diameter)
worn: $3 US dollars approximate catalog value
average circulated: $12
well preserved: $80
fully uncirculated: $250
2 kurush dated 1255AH with regnal years 19 and 20 are quite rare, multiply these values by four
2 kurush dated 1255AH with regnal year 14 is rare, multiply the values by two
2 kurush dated 1255AH with regnal year 21 are extremely rare; multiply these values by ten

Use our Important Terminology page to adjust these catalog values to obtain estimates of actual buy and sell values.
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