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Mangır - Süleyman I
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1550 |
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| Value | 1 Mangir (1⁄40) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field displaying a multi-line Arabic inscription in flowing Naskh-style script, likely containing the mint name and regnal formula. The text is arranged in two or three horizontal lines within the roughly circular flan, framed by a beaded border. Surface shows characteristic granularity and irregular strike typical of Ottoman hammered copper mangır of the mid-sixteenth century. |
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Suleiman I's copper mangır occupied the absolute bottom of the Ottoman monetary hierarchy, used for the smallest daily transactions in bazaars and markets where silver akçe were too valuable to break. The type is poorly documented in Western references precisely because it circulated hard among the lowest economic strata — literary sources from the period mention it almost exclusively in complaints about short-weight pieces and counterfeits flooding provincial markets.
Zeno #2165 is one of relatively few attributed examples, copper survivorship being what it is.