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20 Lira Mustafa II
| Issuer | Turkish State Mint (Darphane) |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays a finely detailed portrait bust of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II facing slightly left, bearded, and wearing an elaborate turban surmounted by a tall feathered plume aigrette set with an ornamental jewel, depicted in a historicist engraving style against a frosted mirror field. A small stylised tulip motif appears to the right of the bust in the field. The upper border legend reads OSMANLI PADİŞAHLARI in raised Latin letters, while the lower arc bears the sultan's regnal dates and name: 1664-1703 II. MUSTAFA. The design is executed on a deeply mirrored proof flan with frosted relief. |
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Turkey's Darphane has issued a recurring series of historical portrait coins over the past decade, drawing on sultans, reformers, and military figures as subjects. Mustafa II ruled from 1695 to 1703, his reign defined almost entirely by the catastrophic Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Zenta in 1697 — a rout by Eugene of Savoy so complete that the sultan personally fled the field, a humiliation that directly accelerated the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 and the empire's first major territorial concessions in Europe.