TURKEY silver akche 1032 AH (1623 AD) Belgrade mint

Description

Murad IV was son of Ahmed I. He came to the throne at the age of 11. About a decade later he took full power. There was war with the Safavids of Iran throughout his reign. The result was the suppression of small independent entities in the Caucasus and the division of the region between the two major belligerents. In his spare time he commissioned building, wrote poetry, and composed music.

The earliest coins in the world were struck in Asia Minor, in modern Turkish territory. The Turks themselves arrived as nomads staring in the 9th centuriy AD. The Ottomans emerged as a dominant power in the 14th century. The Turkish Empire dissolved after World War I and a republic was established.

Middle East is, generally spealing, Morocco east to Afghanistan, Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north.

By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.