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{{Short description|Ottoman gold coin}}{{for|the village in Iran|Sultani, Iran}}File:Sultani Sulayman I.jpg|thumb|Sultani of Sulayman ISulayman IFile:Sultani of Ahmed III, 1703.jpg|thumb|right|Sultani of Ahmed IIIAhmed IIIThe sultani () 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,BOOK, Pamuk, Sevket, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 2000, Cambridge University Press, 9780521441971, 61–62,weblink 1 January 2022, weighing about {{convert|3.45|g|ozt}}. The sultani is the classic Ottoman gold coin also known generically as altın (, "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.JOURNAL, Şevket Pamuk, Şevket Pamuk, Institutional Change and the Longevity of the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1800, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2004, 35, 2, 225-247, 10.1162/0022195041742427,

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