GERMANY/TURKEY Medal 1791 Ahmet Asmi Efendi (Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Berlin). NGC AU 58

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Certification

Numéro de certification : 6773883-012

État : AU 58

Valeur nominale : SILVER

Atelier (Abbrev.) : GERMANY

Variante : MARIENBURG-7455 ; TURKISH ENVOY VISIT

Ans : 1791-DATED

1791, Prussia/Ottoman Empire. Silver "Ahmet Asmi Efendi" Medal. NGC AU58!

Mint Date: 1791
Mint Place: Berlin
Medallist: Anton Koenig
Reference: Marienburg 7455, Henckel 1922. RR!
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as AU-58!
Denomination: Medal - Arrival of Asmi Ahmet Effendi as Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Berlin.
Material: Silver
Diameter: 29mm
Weight: 7.11gm


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 Ahmed Effendi, who arrived in Berlin to serve as Ambassador during February 1791 on behalf of the Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Selim III. A very rare and sought after example, hard to find in silver, especially as a certified problem-free specimen!



Ahmed Asmi Efendi (also: Asmi Ahmed Efendi, Asmi Said Effend or Asım Said Efendi) was an Ottoman diplomat. He was the second Ottoman envoy to the Kingdom of Prussia. Asmi was probably a brother-in-law of the first Ottoman envoy Ahmed Resmî Efendi and had probably accompanied him to Berlin in 1763/64. During the Russo-Austrian Turkish War he was initially sent to Fes in 1787. There he was supposed to persuade Sultan Mulai Muhammad to close the Strait of Gibraltar in case the Russian Baltic Fleet intended to advance into the Mediterranean (as it had already done in the previous war in 1770). The Moroccan Sultan declared himself unable to do this (and the Russian fleet had actually already sailed to Copenhagen), but due to Sweden's entry into the war in 1788, the Russian fleet was unable to leave the Baltic Sea anyway, whereupon Asmi initially returned to Istanbul in 1788. After the signing of the Prussian-Ottoman military alliance, which had contributed to Austria's exit from the war, Asmi went to Berlin in November 1790 with an official embassy from Istanbul via Bucharest, Budapest, Brno, Breslau, Crossen, Frankfurt, Fürstenwalde and Köpenick, where he arrived in February 1791. He stayed in Berlin until January 1792, when the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II cut off the embassy's daily allowance for cost reasons, without having achieved Prussia's entry into the war on the Ottoman side against Russia as agreed in the alliance treaty. He showed the Prussian military and civil bureaucracy still impressed in his letters and writings. On the occasion of his visit to Berlin in 1791, various bronze and silver commemorative coins and medals were struck.

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