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1 Sultani - Murad III

Issuer Ottoman Empire
Year 1575
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Weight 3.45 g
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Obverse description The entire field is occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend in bold, fluid script, densely arranged across the flan in the characteristic Ottoman hammered style. The inscription names the sultan as Murad bin Selim Khan with an invocatory formula, followed by the mint name Tunis and the AH date 982. The legend fills the field from top to bottom with no central device, the script rendered in high relief against an irregular hammered ground. A border of small dots or pellets encircles the outer edge of the coin.
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Reverse description The reverse field is entirely filled with a multi-line Arabic honorific legend in bold hammered script, arranged in three or four horizontal registers across the flan. The inscription bears the sultanic title glorifying the ruler as the gold striker, the possessor of glory and victory on land and sea. The script is executed in high relief in the typical Ottoman epigraphic style, with no central pictorial device. A dotted border or pelleted inner circle frames the legend along the coin's periphery.
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