Sultani - Murad III type 2

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.