Atik Cifte Rumi - Mahmud II Kostantiniyye

Mahmud II came to power in 1808 through one of the more violent successions in Ottoman history — his predecessor Mustafa IV had his brother Selim III strangled to preempt exactly this outcome, only to be deposed himself days later. The coin was struck in the same year Mahmud signed the Deed of Alliance, the Sened-i İttifak, with Anatolian and Rumelian notables — a document sometimes called the Ottoman Magna Carta, though Mahmud spent the rest of his reign systematically dismantling the power it conceded.