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Manghir - Bayezid I
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1389-1402 |
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| Currency | Akçe (1327-1687) |
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| Obverse description | Within a double-line circle bisected horizontally by three parallel lines, the Arabic titulature of Sultan Bayezid I is inscribed across two registers. The upper register bears the sultan's name and patronymic in Thuluth-influenced script. A continuous beaded border encircles the entire design, characteristic of early Ottoman copper coinage of the late 14th century. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Bayezid I earned the epithet "Yıldırım" — Thunderbolt — for the speed of his military campaigns, and his reign saw the first serious Ottoman administrative consolidation of Anatolia. The copper manghir occupied the lowest practical tier of Ottoman coinage, struck for small market transactions at a time when the empire was simultaneously besieging Constantinople and absorbing Anatolian beyliks by force or diplomacy. Bayezid's monetary output was relatively modest; his reign ended abruptly at Ankara in 1402, when Timur's forces crushed the Ottoman army and took Bayezid himself prisoner.