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1 Sultani - Mahmud II
| Issuer | Regency of Algiers |
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| Year | 1808-1819 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered gold flan of irregular roundness, bearing a four-line Arabic inscription arranged in horizontal registers across the field, framed by a toothed or rope-pattern border. The legend proclaims the Ottoman royal titulature of Sultan Mahmud II, reading 'Sultan of the Two Lands and Khagan of the Two Seas, the Sultan, son of the Sultan.' The script is executed in a bold, angular North African style characteristic of Algerian mint production. Two suspension holes are visible, indicating the coin was later adapted for use as personal adornment. No figurative devices appear; the design is purely epigraphic in the Ottoman-Maghrebi tradition. |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold reverse displaying a four-line Arabic inscription in horizontal registers within a toothed border, giving the mint and regnal year. The upper register reads 'السلطان' (the Sultan), the central registers contain the sultan's name 'Mahmud' along with the phrase 'ضرب في الجزائر' (struck in Algiers), and the lowermost register bears the Hijri date numerals, visible on this example as ١٢٢٦ (AH 1226, corresponding to 1811 CE). Two suspension holes pierce the flan, consistent with those on the obverse. The epigraphy is boldly struck in the characteristic angular style of the Algiers mint. |
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The Regency of Algiers occupied an awkward political position during these years — nominally an Ottoman province, it operated in practice as an autonomous state whose deys conducted independent foreign policy, levied tribute on European shipping, and minted coin without meaningful oversight from Constantinople. Mahmud II, newly enthroned after the violent deposition of Mustafa IV in 1808, was in no position to enforce imperial monetary standardization on a regency that had defied sultans for two centuries.
KM#60 was struck across more than a decade, and die consistency across that span is poor.