1791, Turkey. Ambassador Asmi Achmet Effendi Medal. RR!

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1791, Turkey. Ambassador Asmi Achmet Effendi Medal. RR!A rare example, issued on his position in Berlin. VF++ Mint Date: 1791 Mint Place: Berlin Medallist: Anton Koenig Condition: A beautiful VF++ Reference: Mariens 7454, Henckel 1921. RR! Denomination: Ambassador Asmi Achmet Effendi Medal Diameter: 28mm Material: Silver Weight: 6.91gm Obverse: Bearded bust left, wearing turban and robes with fur collar. Legend: ASMI ACHMED EFFENDI Reverse: German inscription in eight lines, ending with date. Legend: ZUM / ANDENCKEN / BEY SEINER / ANWESENHEIT / ALS GESANDTER / NACH BERLIN / IM FEBR: / 1791 Translated: " To commemorate his presence as ambassador to Berlin in February 1791 "At your attention a beautiful and rare medal of Asmi Achmed Effendi, who served as Ambassador to Berlin during 1791 on behalf of the Ottoman Empire, under Selim III. A very rare, sought after and beautiful example, which is hard to find in silver! Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed. ! Selim III (Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثالث Selīm-i s āli s) ( December 24 , 1761 – July 28/29, 1808) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. He was a son of Mustafa III (1757–74) and succeeded his uncle Abdülhamid I (1774–89). He was born in Constantinople. His mother was Valide Sultan Mihr-i shah.The talents and energy with which Selim III was endowed had endeared him to the people, and great hopes were founded on his accession. He had associated much with foreigners, and was thoroughly persuaded of the necessity of reforming his state. But Austria and Russia gave him no time for anything but defense, and it was not until the peace of Iaşi (1792) that a breathing space was allowed him in Europe, while Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria soon called for Turkey's strongest efforts and for the time shattered the old-standing Franco-Ottoman alliance.Selim III profited by the respite to abolish the military tenure of fiefs; he introduced salutary reforms into the administration, especially in the fiscal department, sought by well-considered plans to extend the spread of education, and engaged foreign officers as instructors, by whom a small corps of new troops called nizam-i-jedid were collected and drilled. So well were these troops organized that they were able to hold their own against rebellious Janissaries in the European provinces, where disaffected governors made no scruple of attempting to make use of them against the reforming sultan.Emboldened by this success, Selim III issued an order that in future picked men should be taken annually from the Janissaries to serve in their ranks.The Janissaries and others who opposed reforms rebelled at Adrianople, and due to their number, exceeding 10,000, and the violence of their opposition, it was decided that the reforms must be given up for now. Serbia, Egypt and the principalities were successively the scene of hostilities in which Turkey gained no successes, and in 1807 a British fleet appeared at Istanbul, strangely, to insist on Turkey's yielding to Russia's demands besides dismissing the ambassador of Napoleon (see Dardanelles Operation).Selim III was, however, thoroughly under the influence of this ambassador, Sebastiani, and the fleet was compelled to retire without effecting its purpose. But the anarchy, manifest or latent, existing throughout the provinces proved too great for Selim III to cope with. The Janissaries rose once more in revolt, induced the Sheikh-ul-Islam to grant a fetva against the reforms, dethroned and imprisoned Selim III, and placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne, as Mustafa IV (1807–08).The pasha of Rustchuk, Mustafa Bayrakdar, a strong partisan of the reforms, collected an army of 40,000 men and marched on Constantinople with the purpose of reinstating Selim III, but he came too late. The ill-fated reforming Sultan had been stabbed in the seraglio by the Chief Black Eunuch and his men, an... read more

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