Sultani

{{Short description|Ottoman gold coin}}

{{for|the village in Iran|Sultani, Iran}}

File:Sultani Sulayman I.jpg, 1520/21]]

File:Sultani of Ahmed III, 1703.jpg, 1703]]

The sultani ({{Langx|ota|سلطاني}}) was an Ottoman gold coin. It was first minted in 1477–8 during the reign of Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481), following the Venetian ducat standard,{{cite book |last1=Pamuk |first1=Sevket |title=A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521441971 |pages=61–62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Htk3Wn789EQC&pg=PA61 |access-date=1 January 2022}} weighing about {{convert|3.45|g|ozt}}. The sultani is the classic Ottoman gold coin also known generically as altın ({{Lang|ota|آلتون}}, "gold").

Although different currency systems were used for different parts of the Ottoman Empire, for symbolic and economic reasons, the sultani was the empire's only gold coin during the sixteenth century.{{cite journal |author1=Şevket Pamuk |author1-link=Şevket Pamuk |title=Institutional Change and the Longevity of the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1800 |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History |date=Autumn 2004 |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=225–247 |doi=10.1162/0022195041742427}}