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30 Para - Mahmud II
| Issuer | Baghdad Eyalet |
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| Year | 1808 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays a multi-line Arabic tughra-style inscription filling the entire field, comprising the sultan's titles and name. The mint name Baghdad (بغداد) and the accession year 1223 AH appear in the lower portion of the coin. The calligraphy is rendered in a bold, flowing Ottoman script characteristic of provincial hammered coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Baghdad Eyalet's coinage under Mahmud II reflects the administrative fragmentation that plagued Ottoman provincial minting in the early nineteenth century — local eyalet issues operated with considerable autonomy from Constantinople, producing coins whose silver content varied dramatically from one striking to the next. Billon issues from Baghdad in this period routinely fell well below any nominal fineness standard, a product of both deliberate debasement and inconsistent local alloy control.
Mahmud II would spend much of his reign trying to claw back exactly this kind of provincial monetary independence.