Manghir - Ahmed I Alep

Ahmed I's accession in 1012 AH (1603 CE) came as the empire was absorbing the financial strain of simultaneous wars against the Habsburgs and Safavids. Provincial mints like Aleppo — Halab in Ottoman administrative nomenclature — struck small copper manghirs largely for local petty transactions, with quality and weight tolerances that varied considerably from the Istanbul standard. Aleppo's mint was among the more active Anatolian and Syrian provincial operations of the period, though its copper output is poorly documented in surviving treasury records.