1 Sultani - Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV's reign was marked by the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, but during the decades this sultani circulated, Tunisia operated as a semi-autonomous regency under the Muradid beys — nominally subject to Istanbul while conducting increasingly independent fiscal policy. The sultani denomination itself was the Ottoman gold standard, modeled on the Venetian ducat in weight and finesse when first introduced under Suleiman I a century earlier.

Tunisian sultanis from this period are notoriously variable in their striking quality, a product of local die-cutting rather than central Ottoman mint production.