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| 正面描述 | Central field occupied by the tughra-style calligraphic rendering of the sultan's name 'Murad' in Arabic script, executed in the fluid, stylized hand characteristic of Ottoman hammered coinage. The inscription is enclosed within a circular border, with additional marginal Arabic lettering framing the design. The flan is irregular in shape, as is typical of hand-struck akçe coinage of the period. The surface shows the bold relief of die-struck Arabic calligraphy against a flat field. |
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| 背面文字 | Arabic |
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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.