Manghir - Suleiman I The Magnificent - year 985/1577/ - Constantinople mint

By 985 AH, Suleiman I had been dead for over a decade — he died at the siege of Szigetvár in 1566 — yet the Constantinople mint continued striking copper manghirs in his name well into the reigns of his successors. This was not forgery or error; Ottoman practice routinely perpetuated a preceding sultan's name on low-denomination copper coinage, partly to ease public acceptance and partly because reissuing dies was expensive relative to the negligible face value of the manghir itself.

The manghir occupied the absolute bottom of the Ottoman monetary hierarchy, used for the smallest market transactions where silver akçes were simply too valuable to make change.