GREECE MEDIEVAL,OTTOMAN EMPIRE 20 PARA 1888 TOKEN,GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN IN KELVERI IN OUTER CIRCLE,IN CENTER DENOMINATION IN LATIN AND ABABIC NUMERALS 20,ABOVE DOVE AND DATE BELOW,STRUCK BY THE CAPPADOCIAN GREEKS OF CENTRAL ANATOLIA TO COMPENSATE FOR A SHORTAGE OF LOW COINAGE At the end of 19th century, due to the lack of "small coins" in the Ottoman empire, many towns and individuals struck their own tokens just for local use. In Kelveri, a town in the area of Aksaray, the greek population struck their tokens, just for use in the town's church of St. Gregory. These tokens were equivalent to 5, 10 and 20 Paras. |