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1 Lira Murad III
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The brass centre presents a right-facing bust portrait of Ottoman Sultan Murad III wearing a large ceremonial Ottoman turban with a distinctive plume holder at the apex, rendered in fine relief against a plain field. To the left of the portrait in the outer copper-nickel ring appears a crescent moon above an eight-pointed star, and to the right a stylised tulip motif — a classical Ottoman decorative symbol. The upper legend OSMANLI PADİŞAHLARI arcs across the outer ring, while the dates and regnal designation 1546-1595 III. MURAD are inscribed on a raised band across the lower exergue beneath the portrait. |
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| Reverse lettering | OSMANLI PADİŞAHLARI 1546-1595 III. MURAD |
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Murad III, who reigned from 1574 to 1595, presided over the Ottoman Empire at its greatest territorial extent while simultaneously overseeing a catastrophic debasement of the silver akçe — a currency crisis so severe it triggered the Celali Revolts that destabilized Anatolia for decades. The Turkish Mint's decision to commemorate him on a circulation coin carries some irony given that history.