Para - Murad III Canca mint

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.