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Akçe - Mehmed Çelebi in the name of Timur
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1404 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Bursa |
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Following the catastrophic Ottoman defeat at Ankara in 1402, Timur held Bayezid I captive and installed Mehmed Çelebi as a vassal ruler over a fragment of the former Ottoman territories. This piece was struck in Mehmed's name but explicitly under Timurid suzerainty — a numismatic record of the interregnum period known to Ottoman historians as the Fetret Devri. The dynasty had effectively ceased to exist as a sovereign power, and coinage acknowledging Timur's overlordship was the political reality made metal.