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Sultani - Murad III type 2
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Value | 1 Sultani (40) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend in bold naskh script, presenting the Sultan's tughra-style titulature across several horizontal registers. The inscription is enclosed within a plain linear inner border, itself surrounded by a rope or beaded outer border following the irregular flan edge. Decorative dot ornaments punctuate the registers. The overall composition is characteristic of Ottoman hammered gold coinage of the late sixteenth century, with deeply impressed raised lettering filling the entire field. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Murad III's accession in 1574 coincided with the Ottoman Empire at its administrative and territorial peak, though the treasury was already straining under the costs of simultaneous campaigns in Persia and North Africa. The Sultani was the empire's primary gold trade coin, accepted across Mediterranean and Indian Ocean networks largely because its fineness held consistent where European ducats sometimes did not.
Pere#273 distinguishes this as a second type within Murad's reign, the result of a die revision at Constantinople — likely the mint of Kostantiniyye — early in his rule.