Akce - Murad IV Misr

Murad IV came to power at age eleven, with the empire effectively controlled by his mother Kösem Sultan during his early reign. The Egyptian mint — Misr — had been producing akçes since the Ottoman conquest of 1517, but by the 1620s the denomination was in steep decline, its silver content so debased over successive reigns that these tiny pieces had lost much of their practical purchasing power. Murad would later attempt broader fiscal reforms, but the akçe itself never recovered its earlier standing, eventually disappearing from circulation by the late seventeenth century.