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Harf - Mustafa I
| Issuer | Yemen Eyalet |
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| Year | 1617-1618 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Crude Arabic legend occupying the entire field, struck in hammered style on an irregularly shaped flan. The inscription, reading in multiple lines, bears the name and titles of Sultan Mustafa I. The lettering is characteristic of early Ottoman provincial hammered coinage, with characters exhibiting the rough, informal execution typical of Yemen Eyalet mint output. The field is heavily worn and patinated, with the legend partially legible. |
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| Obverse lettering | سلطان مصطفى بن محمد خان (Translation: Sultan Mustafa son of Mehmed Khan) |
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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.