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Dirhem - Selim II
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1567 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Baghdad |
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Selim II inherited the throne in 1566 following Suleiman the Great's death during the siege of Szigetvár — a campaign Selim himself did not join, a fact his contemporaries noted with contempt. The Ottoman silver coinage of his reign was struck across a sprawling network of mints from Constantinople to Cairo to Erzurum, making attribution to a specific mint essential for any meaningful assessment of this piece.
His reign also saw the catastrophic loss at Lepanto in 1571, though Ottoman mint output remained largely uninterrupted — the empire's financial apparatus was more resilient than its naval reputation that decade.