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Para - Ahmed II
| Issuer | Ottoman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 1691 |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Obverse description | Flat hammered flan bearing a multi-line Arabic legend disposed across the field in characteristic Ottoman tughra-derived script. The inscription, reading 'Duriba fi Kostantiniyye 1102' (Struck in Constantinople, AH 1102), is arranged in horizontal registers occupying the full face of the coin. The surfaces exhibit heavy patination consistent with copper alloy composition, and the relief is characteristically low, reflecting the hand-struck hammered technique employed at the Kostantiniye mint. No decorative border or inner circle is present, the legend filling the flan to its irregular edges. |
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| Reverse lettering | عز نصره ١ |
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Ahmed II reigned for less than four years, from 1691 to 1695, a period defined almost entirely by the grinding aftermath of the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna and the catastrophic losses codified in the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. The para coinage of his reign was struck under severe fiscal pressure — the Ottoman treasury had been depleted by decades of war on the Hungarian frontier, and copper subsidiary issues like this one were increasingly debased instruments of a strained monetary system.
The Damali reference places this among the earliest documented issues of his reign.