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1 Lira Ahmed I
| Issuer | Turkey |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Thickness | 1.9 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central brass inner disc bearing the elaborate Ottoman State emblem, featuring a central shield flanked by crossed standards, weapons, and military trophies, surmounted by a crescent and star with a tughra in the upper register, all issuing radiating rays. The copper-nickel outer ring carries the legend TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ arching across the upper periphery, with a crescent and star device at the left, a mint mark at the right, and the denomination and date 1 TÜRK LİRASI - 2025 along the lower arc. |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of Sultan Ahmed I depicted in the brass inner disc, shown in three-quarter left profile wearing a tall Ottoman imperial turban with a jewelled aigrette, rendered in a stylised miniature-portrait tradition. The copper-nickel outer ring bears the legend OSMANLI PADİŞAHLARI arching across the upper periphery, a crescent and star device to the left, a decorative flame motif to the right, and the sultan's regnal dates and name 1590-1617 I. AHMED inscribed along the lower arc. |
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Ahmed I is best known for commissioning the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul — completed in 1616 and later called the Blue Mosque by European visitors — funded in part by depleting the imperial treasury at a moment when the Ottoman state was already strained by the long Habsburg war. His selection for a circulating coin in 2025 places him in a Turkish series honoring Ottoman sultans, a project with explicit nationalist framing by the current government.