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1 Qirsh - Ali Dinar
| Issuer | Sultanate of Darfur |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | علي دينار |
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| Mintage | 321 (1909) 17 - x١٧//٣٢١ (Error date x321) - 1227 (1909) 5 - ٥//١٢٢٧ (Error date 1227) - 1237 (1909) 71 - ٧١//١٢٣٧ (Error date 1237, retrograde 3) - 1321 (1909) 71 - ٧١//١٣٢١ (Error date 1321) - 1323 (1909) 65 - ٦٥//١٣٢٣ (Error date 1323) - 1327 (1909) 17 - ١٧//١٣٢٧ - 1327 (1909) 26 - ٢٦//١٣٢٧ - 1327 (1909) 7 - ٧//١٣٢٧ - 1327 (1909) 71 - ٧١//١٣٢٧ - 1327 (1909) 71 - ٧١//١٣٢٧ (retrograde 3) - 1327 (1909) 76 - ٧٦//١٣٢٧ - 1327 (1909) 77 - ٧٧//١٣٢٧ - 1387 (1909) 17 - ١٧//١٣٨٧ (Error date 1387) - 3127 (1909) 71 - ٧١//٣١٢٧ (Error date 3127) - 3167 (1909) 7x - ٧//٣١٦٧x (Error date 3167) - 7132 (1909) x - ٧١٣٢//x (Error date 7132) - |
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Ali Dinar was the last sultan of Darfur, restored to power by the British in 1898 after the Mahdist state collapsed at Omdurman. He ruled with considerable autonomy for nearly two decades, minting his own coinage as a deliberate assertion of independence from Khartoum. This billon qirsh, struck in AH 1327, was produced in extremely limited quantities — Darfur lacked sophisticated minting infrastructure, and the coins show it. The British eventually grew suspicious of Ali Dinar's wartime sympathies with the Ottomans and invaded Darfur in 1916, killing him at the Battle of Beringia and ending the sultanate permanently.