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1 Sultani - Ahmed I
| Issuer | Tunisia |
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| Year | 1604-1607 |
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| Currency | Rial (1567-1891) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered gold flan with multi-line Arabic calligraphic legend occupying the entire field, struck in bold relief. The inscription reads the name and titles of Sultan Ahmed bin Mehmed Khan, arranged in three to four horizontal registers across the coin. The AH date 1012 appears in the lower portion of the field. A dotted border runs along the inner periphery of the irregular flan. |
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| Mintage | 1012 (1604) - ١٠١٢ [Unlisted in Krause] - 1013 (1605) - ١٠١٣ - 1015 (1607) - ١٠١٥ - |
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Ahmed I's reign over the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617) coincided with sustained military pressure on multiple frontiers, and the Tunisian regency operated with considerable fiscal autonomy during this period. The sultani denomination itself was the Ottoman gold standard, modeled closely on the Venetian ducat in weight and fineness — a deliberate policy of interoperability with Mediterranean trade that dated back to Suleiman I's reforms of the previous century.
Tunisian-struck sultanis from this window are notably scarcer than their Istanbul counterparts, reflecting the regency's smaller mint output and the tendency of gold coinage in North African ports to be melted or exported through trans-Saharan trade networks rather than preserved.