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Small Silver Coin. Any Help Would Be Appreciated

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 Posted 09/21/2023  10:26 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add alexmun to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have been unable to identify this small coin.

Thanks in advance

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 Posted 09/22/2023  04:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bojan Radosavljevic to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ottoman silver small coin

The akçe or akça (also spelled akche, akcheh; Ottoman Turkish: #1570;#1602;#1670;#1607;; Turkish pronunciation: [akt#643;e]) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is derived from the Turkish ak ("white") and the diminutive suffix -ça.[1] Three akçes were equal to one para. One-hundred and twenty akçes equalled one kuru#351;. Later after 1687 the kuru#351; became the main unit of account, replacing the akçe. In 1843, the silver kuru#351; was joined by the gold lira in a bimetallic system.[2] Its weight fluctuated, one source estimates it is between 1.15 and 1.18 grams. The name akçe originally referred to a silver coin but later the meaning changed and it became a synonym for money.
The mint in Novo Brdo, a fortified mining town in the Serbian Despotate rich with gold and silver mines, began to strike akçe in 1441 when it was captured by the Ottoman forces for the first time.[4]

The Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul is said to have cost 59 million akçe when it was constructed in the 1550s. This amount is said to have equalled 700,000 ducats in gold (probably Venetian).
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Bojan, thank you for your kind words. Yes, I thought it was Ottoman, but I'd like to know if it had any attribution to a specific ruler/date.
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