Medin - Ahmed I

Ahmed I came to the throne in 1603 at roughly thirteen years old, and his early coinage reflects the administrative chaos of a transition that bypassed the fratricide law only by exception. Egypt's mint at this period was producing silver at reduced weight standards compared to Anatolian issues, a consequence of ongoing debasement pressures that had been accelerating since the 1580s — the same monetary deterioration that contributed to the Celali revolts convulsing Anatolia during precisely these years.