Coin 5 Kurush 1909, Ottoman Empire

Silver, stamping. The state of VF. Guarantee of authenticity.

Kurush (tur. kuruş, formerly guruş, is formed from Latin through multiple borrowings. grossus, etymologically related to the Russian penny) — in modern Turkey, after the 2005 monetary reform, the kurush is 1/100 of the Turkish lira. Originally, kurush was the name of silver European coins in Ottoman Turkey, for example levendalder — asadi-kurush, Reichsthaler — royal-kurush (for details, see thaler). Later, it was its own coin (1 kurush = 40 pairs), whose weight varied very significantly (from 26 to 1.2 grams). The Ottoman (Turkish) piastre is the name of the monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire kurush, adopted in Europe. Sometimes it's just a piastre, if its Turkish origin is clear from the context.