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1 Sultani - Murad III
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Weight | 3.45 g |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 982 (1575) - ٩٨٢ |
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Murad III's accession in 1574 brought immediate monetary reorganization — the sultani gold coinage, introduced under Suleiman the Magnificent in 1477 as a deliberate Ottoman answer to the Venetian ducat, was restruck to reflect the new reign. The Istanbul mint dominated sultani production, though Egyptian and other provincial mints struck their own issues with varying fineness that periodically required imperial correction.
By Murad's reign, the sultani had circulated widely enough to appear in European merchant account books under the name "chequin" — a corruption of "sikke," the Turkish word for coin.