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Akce - Murad III Damascus
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Value | 1 Akce |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Murad III's accession in 1574 triggered an immediate recoinage across Ottoman mints, Damascus among them. The akçe by this point was in long-term structural decline — decades of debasement had reduced it to a fraction of its earlier silver content, and the 1580s would bring the currency crisis that effectively ended the akçe's role as the empire's primary transactional coin. This piece sits near the edge of that collapse.