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Para - Murad III Canca mint
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field contains a multi-line Arabic legend arranged in horizontal registers, reading 'May his victory be glorious. Struck in Canca, 982,' providing the mint name Canca and the AH date 982 (AD 1575). The script is rendered in the cursive Arabic style typical of Ottoman hammered coinage of the period. The flan is irregular in outline, with the inscription occupying the full available field and no formal border or decorative elements present. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Murad III's accession in 1574 triggered one of the more turbulent monetary episodes of the sixteenth-century Ottoman system. Facing chronic silver shortages and debasement pressure from inflowing Spanish-American silver disrupting Mediterranean trade prices, the early years of his reign saw provincial mints like Canca — operating in the former Genoese sphere of the Black Sea region — pushed into production to meet demand that Istanbul and the major Anatolian mints could not absorb alone. Canca issues from this period are notably scarcer than contemporaneous Konstantiniyye strikes.