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10 Santīmāt
| Issuer | Sultanate of Ngazidja (Grande Comore) |
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| Year | 1891 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a four-line Arabic inscription centered in the field, reading the denomination, state name, divine invocation, and Hijri date 1308. The numeral '10' and the abbreviation for santīmāt appear at the top of the legend, surmounted by a small five-pointed star. The central inscription is framed by a wreath of two olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow, their tips meeting at the upper field. A continuous beaded border encircles the entire design, and the Paris mint mark 'A' appears discreetly at the base of the coin below the wreath knot. |
| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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The Sultanate of Ngazidja — the largest of the Comoro Islands — issued this bronze piece during a period of contested French influence, just years before the archipelago was formally placed under French protectorate status in 1886 and subsequently annexed in 1908. This coinage was struck in Paris and represents one of the very few autonomous issues produced under Said Ali bin Said Omar, whose authority was already being systematically undermined by French commercial and political pressure throughout the 1890s.
The series is small — only a handful of denominations were struck, and surviving examples in any grade are genuinely scarce on the market.