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Beshlik/Mahmudi - Ahmed III
| Issuer | Kartli, Kingdom of (1490-1762) |
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| Year | 1704 |
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| Value | 1/2 Onluk |
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| Obverse description | Prominent tughra of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III occupying the central field, executed in the characteristic calligraphic style with interlaced loops and upward-sweeping shafts. Decorative arrow-like finials appear above the tughra within the upper register. The mint name and AH date are inscribed in Arabic script below the tughra, reading 'Struck in Tiflis 1115'. The flan is irregularly shaped and slightly ragged at the edges, consistent with hammered coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ahmed III acceded to the Ottoman throne in 1703 following the deposition of Mustafa II, and Georgian vassal states were quick to acknowledge the new sultan on their coinage. Kartli's Beshlik issues of this period occupy an awkward political position — nominally struck under Ottoman suzerainty while the kingdom simultaneously maintained tributary obligations toward Safavid Persia, a double deference that shifted with each passing decade.
Album 2708A is among the less documented types in the Georgian-Ottoman series, with die combinations still being catalogued from dispersed collections.