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1 Akce - Mehmed Beg
| Issuer | Beylik of Germiyan |
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| Year | 1341-1361 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central rectangular cartouche containing a multi-line Arabic legend in Kufic-influenced script, arranged in three horizontal registers within a plain linear border. The field surrounding the cartouche features a dotted or beaded outer border, typical of Anatolian beylik coinage. The inscription, struck in bold relief on an irregularly flan, identifies the ruler and his titles. The overall style is characteristic of hammered silver akces produced by the Germiyan beylik during the mid-fourteenth century. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Germiyan was among the most powerful of the Anatolian beyliks during the fragmentation that followed Mongol pressure on the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, and Mehmed Beg ruled it at its territorial peak before dynastic inheritance politics began dismantling it — his daughter's marriage to Ottoman prince Bayezid in 1381 eventually transferred much of the beylik's territory to the Ottomans as dowry. This akçe predates that decline, struck when Germiyan controlled the region around Kütahya and maintained its own mint independent of any external authority.