Manghir - Murad II Kayı tribe symbol

Mints :

01) أدرنة - Adrina (Edirne, Turkey) :

According to the historian Paul Wittek [1], as part of the invented genealogies designed to give legitimacy to the Ottoman government after the catastrophic civil war (1402-1413), Ottoman historians and chroniclers invented a lineage of the Ottoman family to the Kayı tribe. A translation of Ibn Bibi's Saljukname was made into Turkish by Yazıcıoğlu Ali in the final years of Murad II's reign, which greatly pushed this narrative. This mangır with the supposed symbol of the Kayı tribe, the tamgha, was made to help spread this propaganda. Examples were already attested in the collection of the late Ottoman numismatist Halil Eldem. Thanks to popular (but ahistorical) 21st century Turkish dramas and nationalist movements, the Kayı symbol has become associated with the early Ottomans and various forms of Turkish/Turkic nationalism, but this coin is excellent evidence of this invented tradition at Murad II's court. 

Catalogue reference: Kabaklarlı 06-Adr-39

^{[1] Paul Wittek, The Rise of the Ottoman Empire, ed. Colin Heywood (Routledge, 2012), 41.}