Akce - Mehmed IV Kostantiniyye mint

Mehmed IV came to the throne in 1648 at age six following the deposition and subsequent murder of his father Ibrahim I — one of the more violent successions in Ottoman history. The akçe by this reign had already suffered decades of debasement; what had been a silver coin in the sixteenth century was by the mid-seventeenth little more than billon, and this piece reflects that long deterioration. The Kostantiniyye mint was the most prolific of the Ottoman striking facilities, which does nothing to help survivors stand apart from the mass of similar pieces.