Manghir - Mehmed II Tire, fleur-de-lys below

Mehmed II's first reign lasted less than two years before his father Murad II was persuaded out of retirement to deal with the Crusade of Varna. This manghir was struck during that brief initial sultanate, between Mehmed's accession at fourteen and his forced abdication in 1446. The Tire mint — active in western Anatolia — used the fleur-de-lys as a mint differentiator, placing it below to distinguish its output from contemporaneous issues of identical type struck elsewhere.