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Sultani - Murad III type 1
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold flan bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in bold naskh script, arranged in four horizontal registers across the field. The inscription proclaims the sultan's imperial titles in traditional Ottoman formula. The field is fully occupied by the honorific titulature, with no additional decorative motifs. A continuous dotted border frames the entire design at the periphery, consistent with the obverse treatment and standard Ottoman sultani coinage convention of the late sixteenth century. |
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Murad III ascended in 1574 following the death of Selim II, and his reign saw the Ottoman treasury under mounting strain from prolonged warfare on both the Persian and Habsburg fronts. The sultani — modeled on the Venetian ducat in weight and fineness to facilitate Mediterranean trade — had been the empire's gold standard since Mehmed II introduced it in the 1470s. By Murad's reign, debasement pressures were already building, making the early Type 1 issues struck closest to the original fineness the more commercially trusted pieces in circulation.