Akce - Mehmed II Second reign, Type 1

Mehmed II reclaimed the Ottoman throne in 1451 following the death of his father Murad II, whose own abdication six years earlier had been effectively reversed by political pressure after the young sultan's first reign proved untenable. This Type 1 akçe belongs to the opening coinage of the second reign — the same reign that would, within two years, see the conquest of Constantinople and the permanent end of the Byzantine Empire. The monetary reforms that followed that conquest render these earliest second-reign issues a distinct and finite series.