Catalog
Sultani - Suleiman I Damascus
| Issuer | Ottoman Empire |
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| Year | 1520 |
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| Value | 1 Sultani (40) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold reverse displaying a multi-line Arabic legend in bold cursive script arranged in three registers, separated by a horizontal rule and contained within a plain circular border. The inscription presents an honorific epithet of the sultan as the 'striker of gold, possessor of glory and victory on land and sea,' a formulaic panegyric legend standard on early sixteenth-century Ottoman sultanis. The raised script exhibits vigorous, deeply cut strokes characteristic of the Damascus mint's die-cutting style under Suleiman I. The overall composition is symmetrical and fills the flan, consistent with the aesthetic conventions of hammered Ottoman gold coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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