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Mangir - Mehemed b. Umur 'Musaoğlu II Umur Bey'
| Issuer | Beylik of Aydin |
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| Year | 1403-1405 |
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| Value | Mangir |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in cursive Naskh script, arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The inscription, identifying the ruler Mehemed b. Umur, is set within a plain border. The striking is characteristic of hammered copper coinage, with typical irregularity of flan shape and uneven depth of relief. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Mehmed b. Umur ruled the Aydinid beylik for barely two years during one of the most chaotic intervals in Anatolian history — the interregnum following Timur's destruction of Ottoman power at Ankara in 1402, which temporarily restored several dismembered beyliks to autonomy. His copper mangir represents one of the shortest and most administratively fragile issues in the Aydinid series, struck while the beylik scrambled to reassert itself around Birgi and the Aegean coast before Ottoman reconsolidation ended any such independence permanently.