Akçe

Not to be confused with Aqcha.

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Akçe issued by Sultan Osman I

The akçe (Ottoman Turkish: آقچه‎) (Turkish pronunciation: [aktʃe]) was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire, a silver coin. Three akçes were equal to one para. One-hundred and twenty akçes equalled one kuruş. Later after 1687 the kuruş became the main unit of account, replacing the akçe. In 1843, the silver kuruş was joined by the gold lira in a bimetallic system.^[1] Its weight fluctuated, one source estimates it is between 1.15 and 1.18 grams.^[2] 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.^[3]

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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Devaluation

Weight of Akçe in grams of silver and index.^[4]

Year	Silver (gr.)	Index
1450-60	0.85	100
1490-1500	0.68	80
1600	0.29	34
1700	0.13	15
1800	0.048	6

See also

• Akşa

References

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   ^ Ermiş, Fatih (2013). A History of Ottoman Economic Thought. p. 23.
   


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   ^ Balkan studies. Édition de lA̕cadémie bulgare des sciences. 1988. p. 111. The mint at Novo brdo (in Turkish "Novar"), was the first to start striking Ottoman akçe — as early as 1441, when Murad Il's military commander, the eunuch Sibab ed-Din pasa captured the town, which had the greatest silver deposits and the ...
   


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   ^ Malanima, Paolo (2009). Pre-Modern European Economy: One Thousand Years (10th-19th Centuries). BRILL. p. 198. ISBN 9789004178229. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
   

External links

• Ottoman coins


• September 1, 2013 - A huge treasure of 47,000 silver Akçe discovered in Goleşti, Romania

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