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Akçe - Giyath al-Din Muhammad
| Issuer | Eretna, Beylik of |
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| Year | 1352-1365 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a multi-line Arabic text legend distributed across the field in three or four horizontal lines, rendered in a bold, slightly angular Naskh script. The inscription contains the Islamic profession of faith (Shahada) in the upper portion, followed by the name of the Prophet Muhammad, and a final line indicating the mint and date. The field is otherwise plain, with the irregular coin edge and uneven strike characteristic of hammered silver issues of the Eretna Beylik. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Eretna beylik occupied an awkward political middle ground in fourteenth-century Anatolia — nominally subordinate to the Ilkhanids, then forced to navigate between Mongol collapse and the rising pressure of neighboring Turkmen powers. Giyath al-Din Muhammad was the second ruler of the dynasty, inheriting a state his father Eretna had carved out of the Ilkhanid dissolution after 1335. His coinage reflects that transitional moment: a provincial mint operating with genuine autonomy for the first time, no longer struck in the name of a Mongol overlord.
The beylik effectively ceased to function as a coherent state within a generation of his death, absorbed by the Kadı Burhaneddin emirate by 1381.