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Sultani - Osman II Damascus
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1618 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | سلطان عثمان ابن احمد خان عز نصره ضرب في دمشق ١٠٢٧ (Translation: Sultan Osman bin Ahmed Khan May he be victorious Struck in Damascus 1027) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Osman II came to power at sixteen and almost immediately began antagonizing the Janissaries — the military corps that would eventually strangle him to death in the Yedikule fortress in 1622, making him the first Ottoman sultan to be deposed and killed by his own troops. This Damascus sultani dates to the opening year of that doomed reign. The Damascus mint was one of the empire's most productive provincial gold-striking facilities, serving Levantine trade routes where Venetian ducats had long set the weight standard this coin was effectively designed to challenge.