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Eshrefi - Ahmed III
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1703-1716 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#170 |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (1703-1716) IV/XXVI - - ND (1703-1716) IX - - ND (1703-1716) VII - - ND (1703-1716) XIII - - |
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Ahmed III came to power in the same coup that deposed his brother Mustafa II following the catastrophic Ottoman defeat at Zenta in 1697 — a battle in which Eugene of Savoy annihilated the Ottoman army in under two hours. The Eshrefi denomination itself was an Ottoman adaptation of the Venetian ducat weight standard, a quiet acknowledgment of European monetary practice embedded within imperial coinage.
Ahmed's reign ended in another palace revolt in 1730, the Patrona Halil rebellion, triggered partly by the disastrous Russo-Ottoman War of 1711–1713 aftermath and compounding fiscal strain.