What is the difference between reshat and el ghazi on Ottoman Empire coins? [solved]

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ThePoet
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Posted: 8 Jan 2020, 19:06 #
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As per the subject can someone explain what reshat and el ghazi are on Ottman Empire coins.
gyoschak Numista team
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Posted: 9 Jan 2020, 02:51 #
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See this coin page: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34178.html


-1915: I don’t know what reshat means.
1915+: The meaning of el ghazi is “victorious” (I think).
I suspect both are titles, like Nicholas “the great”?
ThePoet
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Posted: 9 Jan 2020, 04:07 #
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Thank you, I think the term is honorific. The pictures shown, are they symbols or an Arabic script?
gyoschak Numista team
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Posted: 9 Jan 2020, 04:54 #
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Numbers are the only thing I know in Arabic! And I know there were major changes in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire...
luca biondi
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Posted: 9 Jan 2020, 08:57 #
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El-Ghazi for Abdul Amid II and Reshat for Mehmet V.
asimov37
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Posted: 9 Jan 2020, 13:24 #
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Hi,
I remember somebody said me about Reshat and El Ghazi meanings.
It seems that Reshat is the Honorific Title of the Sultan (can be sometimes replaced by flowers on the coins),
and El Ghazi is the new Honorific Title when the Sultan has made the Mecca Pilgrimage.
I've never tried to find another explanation…
DonChori
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Posted: 12 Jan 2020, 22:03 #
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I always wonder why it is "reshat" not "reshad". There's written رشاد on the coin and that's "reshad".
I'm not orange and also in other things I'm not a Donald at all. DonChori like Don Felipe or Doña María, por favor.
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