Catalog
Harf - Mustafa I
| Issuer | Yemen Eyalet |
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| Year | 1617-1618 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | سلطان مصطفى بن محمد خان (Translation: Sultan Mustafa son of Mehmed Khan) |
| Reverse description | A bold geometric ornamental pattern fills the field, consisting of a central rectangular or square device divided by intersecting lines, with pellets or dots positioned within the resulting compartments. This type of abstract geometric design is characteristic of Ottoman provincial hammered coinage of the period, serving as a decorative device in lieu of figurative imagery. The strike is irregular and the flan shows pronounced edge irregularity consistent with hand-cut silver blanks. |
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Mustafa I's first reign lasted less than a year — he was deposed in 1618 after the Janissaries who had placed him on the throne lost confidence in a sultan widely considered mentally unfit to rule. Coinage struck in his name from provincial mints like those serving Yemen Eyalet represents some of the thinnest and most fragmentary silver of the entire Ottoman sequence, produced at the margins of an empire whose attention was firmly elsewhere.