Mehmed II's second reign began in 1451 and culminated with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 — an event that reconfigured Ottoman monetary administration almost immediately. Edirne had served as the imperial capital before the fall, and its mint continued striking copper manghirs into the early post-conquest years as the empire reorganized its minting infrastructure around the new capital.
The manghir was the lowest denomination in everyday Ottoman commerce, used for transactions too small for silver akçe. Edirne mint output from this period is catalogued sparsely, and attribution between the two reigns of Mehmed II requires careful attention to die characteristics rather than surface detail alone.
Mehmed II's second reign began in 1451 and culminated with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 — an event that reconfigured Ottoman monetary administration almost immediately. Edirne had served as the imperial capital before the fall, and its mint continued striking copper manghirs into the early post-conquest years as the empire reorganized its minting infrastructure around the new capital.
The manghir was the lowest denomination in everyday Ottoman commerce, used for transactions too small for silver akçe. Edirne mint output from this period is catalogued sparsely, and attribution between the two reigns of Mehmed II requires careful attention to die characteristics rather than surface detail alone.