Sultani - Selim I

Selim I came to power in 1512 by deposing his own father, Bayezid II, and almost immediately executing his brothers and nephews to eliminate rival claims. The sultani he struck was modeled directly on the Venetian ducat — a deliberate commercial calculation, since Venetian gold had long dominated Levantine trade routes and merchants across the eastern Mediterranean trusted its weight and fineness on sight. Matching those parameters was policy, not coincidence.

Pere#116 places this among the earliest Ottoman gold issues of Selim's reign, struck before his campaigns against the Safavids culminated at Chaldiran in 1514.