Catalog
Medini - Murad IV
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1618-1622 |
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| Currency | Akçe (1517-1687) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded circle, a multi-line Arabic legend containing the phrase of accession and the pious formula, followed by an arabesque ornament, the mint name Misr (Egypt), and the accession year 1032 AH. The calligraphic inscription is boldly struck in high relief in the characteristic Ottoman hammered style. The beaded border encircles the entire field. The reverse layout follows the standard Ottoman provincial format for Egyptian mint issues of the early seventeenth century. |
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Murad IV didn't actually take the throne until 1623, so a Medini attributed to his reign with a date range starting in 1618 almost certainly reflects a misattribution or a transitional issue struck under the turbulent close of Mustafa I's first reign or Osman II's brief sultanate. The Ottoman silver fractional coinage of this period is notoriously difficult to attribute precisely — dies were reused, mint marks were inconsistently applied, and political instability between 1618 and 1623 produced coinage records of exceptional disorder.