Larin - Mehmed III

The larin was a wire-money denomination native to the Persian Gulf trade circuit, bent into a distinctive hairpin shape and used extensively in coastal commerce from the Arabian Peninsula through to India and Ceylon. Basra, as the principal Ottoman port on the Gulf, sat at the intersection of that trade and occasionally struck larins to participate in it — though such issues were loosely supervised and rarely recorded systematically, which accounts for the KM unlisted status of most provincial examples. Mehmed III came to the throne in 1595 after ordering the execution of nineteen of his brothers, the largest fratricide in Ottoman succession history.