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Medini - Murad IV
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1618-1622 |
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| Value | 1 Medini (5) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded circle, a multi-line Arabic legend presenting the titulature of the Ottoman sultan, rendered in the characteristic bold calligraphic style of hammered Ottoman coinage. The inscription fills the central field, with individual letter forms raised in high relief against a flat ground. The surrounding beaded border frames the composition and is typical of Ottoman provincial mint production of the early seventeenth century. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with hand-struck hammered silver of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | سلطان عثمان بن خان بن .... (Translation: Sultan Osman , son of Khan Son of ......`) |
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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.