Definition

• This word in Turkish signifies gold, and after the conquest of Constanti- nople, Muhammad II, in A. 11. 833, issued a gold coin named Sultany Altun. which, for brevity's sake, was called Altun.

  It was patterned after the Sequin, and. according to Lane-Poole, Num. Chronicle , 3d Series (ii. 167-168), " was known by various other names, according to the pre- dominant foreign commercial influence; -- under western influence it was called Flury (florin) ; under Persian, Shahyj and after the Conquest of Egypt, the name Ashrafy, or Sherify, which had been given to the improved coinage of El-Ashraf Bar- sabay, was transferred to the issues of the Constantinopolitan mint. "

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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