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20 Lira Mustafa I
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | New lira (2005-date) |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust portrait of Sultan Mustafa I, depicted in a stylized engraved effigy wearing a tall Ottoman kavuk (ceremonial turban) and a ruffled collar, with a short beard, rendered in low relief against a plain field. To the right of the portrait, a small decorative Ottoman lale (tulip) motif with a bird is present as an ornamental device. The curved legend 'OSMANLI PADİŞAHLARI' arcs across the upper border. The Sultan's birth and death years '1591 - 1639' appear at the lower left, and the name 'I. MUSTAFA' is inscribed at the lower right. |
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| Mintage | 2024 - Proof - 3,000 |
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Mustafa I ruled twice — briefly in 1617–18, then again in 1622–23 — and both reigns ended in deposition. He was confined to the kafes, the Ottoman palace enclosure used to isolate potential heirs, for nearly fourteen years before his first accession, a psychological toll that contemporaries and later historians have used to explain his erratic conduct in office. The Darphane has issued a number of silver collector pieces in recent years revisiting overlooked or troubled Ottoman reigns, and Mustafa fits that pattern exactly.