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Atik Cifte Rumi - Mahmud II Kostantiniyye mint
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1815-1821 |
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| Currency | Kuruş (1688-1844) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Kostantiniyye (Constantinople) Mint |
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The Atik Cifte Rumi was struck during Mahmud II's sustained effort to reassert central authority following the catastrophic fragmentation of the Janissary-dominated decades before him. By 1815, the Ottoman treasury was under acute pressure from the costs of provincial rebellions and the ongoing Greek independence movement building toward its 1821 eruption — the very year this type ceased production. Gold at .956 fineness placed this well above the debased issues of his predecessors, a deliberate signal of fiscal seriousness from a sultan who would later abolish the Janissary corps entirely in 1826.