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10 Para - Mustafa III
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1758 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mustafa III came to the throne in 1757 following the death of Osman III, inheriting an empire whose currency had been systematically debased for decades. The billon coinage of his reign reflects that inherited crisis — successive sultans had reduced silver content in the para series to the point where billon was effectively the honest description of what earlier issues had euphemistically called silver. Mustafa's financial reforms attempted to stabilize matters, but the Seven Years' War's disruption of Ottoman trade networks undercut any meaningful recovery.
KM#306 is among the more frequently encountered para types of his reign, produced at Constantinople in the first years after his accession.