v24_2574 - TURQUIE - SULTAN MOHAMMED V RESAT 250 piastres or, pièce de luxe 1912 Constantinople

TURKEY - SULTAN MUHAMMAD V RESET

(1909-1918/AH 13271336)

Mohammed V (1844-1918) is the brother of Abdul Hamid II. He had to face the Italo-Turkish war of 1911-1912, then the two Balkan wars of 1912-1914. Turkey is the ally of the Central Powers during the First World War. The Armenian genocide began in 1915. The Franco-English were bogged down in the Dardanelles against the Turks and the Germans.