1 Lira Murad IV

Murad IV, who ruled from 1623 to 1640, is best remembered for his brutal reimposition of order on an empire that had nearly fractured under a succession of weak sultans and Janissary revolts. He personally led campaigns against Safavid Persia, retaking Baghdad in 1638 — a victory commemorated in the Treaty of Zuhab, which fixed the Ottoman-Persian border in a configuration that broadly persists as the modern Iraq-Iran frontier.

His domestic reign was marked by the personal enforcement of bans on coffee, tobacco, and alcohol, with violators reportedly executed on his direct order during nighttime patrols through Istanbul.