Akce - Mehmed III Aleppo

Mehmed III came to the throne in 1595 following the death of Murad III, and his accession was marked by the execution of nineteen of his brothers — the largest single application of the Ottoman fratricide law. Coins were struck in his name across the empire's provincial mints almost immediately, Aleppo among them, as recoinage on succession was standard Ottoman fiscal practice.

By this point the akçe had been debased so severely over the preceding decades that its silver content was a fraction of what earlier issues had carried. The 0.20g weight reflects late-sixteenth-century Ottoman monetary deterioration, not a provincial minting anomaly.