Name of Object:

Ottoman coin – 10 Kurush 1876

Location:

Bucharest, Romania

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Romanian History

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Date of Object:

1876

Description:

After Moldavia and Wallachia became vassals of the Ottoman Empire, their rulers lost the right to struck coins. Therefore, commercial exchanges were done using foreign coins, the most widely circulated being Ottoman coinage. Things changed in the second half of the 19th century when national coins were issued in the United Principalities starting with 1867.

Citation of this web page:

"Ottoman coin – 10 Kurush 1876" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;rm;15;en;N

MWNF Working Number: RO 015