Sultani - Murad III Aleppo, type 2

Obverse description	Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in flowing naskh script, reading the sultan's titulature: Sultan Murad bin Sultan Selim, with the invocatory phrase 'May he be victorious.' Below the central inscription, the mint name Aleppo (Halab) and the regnal year 982 AH are recorded. The entire design is contained within a dotted border, characteristic of Ottoman hammered gold coinage. The irregular flan and struck surfaces are typical of sixteenth-century sultani production.
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Reverse description	Central field filled with a dense, multi-line Arabic inscription in naskh script, conveying the honorific epithet of the sultan as 'striker of gold, the glorious and victorious in land and sea.' The legend is arranged in several registers across the flan, enclosed within a dotted circular border consistent with standard Ottoman sultani coinage of the period. The hammered strike produces an uneven surface with slight flan irregularities typical of mint production at Aleppo during the reign of Murad III.
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Reverse lettering	ضارب النضر صاحب العز والنصر في البر والبحر (Translation: Gold striker The glorious and victorious In the land and sea)
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