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Manghir - Selim I Kostantiniye
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1519 |
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| Currency | Akçe (1327-1687) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered copper flan of irregular round form bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in flowing thuluth script occupying the entire field. The inscription reads 'Selim Shah ibn Bayezid Khan / al-Muzaffar Da'iman' (Selim Shah, son of Bayezid Khan, ever victorious), arranged in two lines without an enclosing border. The deeply struck lettering displays characteristic Ottoman calligraphic style, with the script showing bold, intertwined strokes typical of early sixteenth-century Anatolian mangir coinage. The flat, undecorated field bears no additional devices or ornamental borders. |
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| Reverse lettering | عز نصره ضرب في قسطنطينية ٩٢٥ |
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Selim I spent most of his reign at war — against the Safavids at Chaldiran in 1514, then sweeping through Mamluk Syria and Egypt by 1517 — which makes any domestic copper issue from his brief sultanate relatively scarce. The Kostantiniye mint was the empire's prestige striking facility, but copper manghirs were workhorses of the bazaar economy, changing hands for bread and salt rather than treasury transfers. Most circulated hard and fast.