Dirhem - Murad III Baghdad

Descrizione del dritto	Hammered silver flan bearing a dense field of Arabic calligraphic inscriptions in the Ottoman thuluth style, occupying the full face of the coin without a defined border. The legends, struck in bold relief, carry the royal titulature of Sultan Murad III including his name and regnal epithets arranged across multiple lines. The irregular flan exhibits characteristic hammered surfaces with slight weakness at the periphery. No figural imagery is present, consistent with Islamic numismatic tradition.
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Scrittura del rovescio	Arabic
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Murad III ascended the throne in 1574 following the death of Selim II, and Baghdad at this point had been under Ottoman control since Suleiman the Magnificent's campaign of 1534 — a conquest that ended nearly a century of Safavid contest over the city. The Baghdad mint was strategically maintained precisely because the eastern frontier remained contested; Safavid pressure never fully abated, and the mint's output served logistical as much as economic purposes. Murad III's reign saw the resumption of serious Ottoman-Safavid warfare in 1578, just three years after this piece was struck.