1 Qirsh - Ali Dinar

Ali Dinar retook Darfur in 1898 after the Battle of Omdurman left the Mahdist state in ruins, re-establishing the Keira sultanate as a nominally independent entity under loose Anglo-Egyptian oversight. This coin, struck in 1905, is among the very few issues of his reign — Darfur had no functioning mint tradition, and the decision to produce coinage at all was a deliberate political assertion of autonomous rule. The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium tolerated Ali Dinar's sultanate until 1916, when he miscalculated by aligning with the Ottomans during World War I. British forces killed him in battle that November.