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Sultani - Mahmud II
| Issuer | Algiers, Regency of |
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| Year | 1820-1830 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The entire field is occupied by a four-line Arabic calligraphic legend in bold Thuluth script, arranged within horizontal registers defined by incuse lines. The inscription reads across four bands within a plain inner circle, itself enclosed by a dotted border running along the coin's periphery. The legend proclaims the Ottoman imperial titulature of Sultan Mahmud II. No figurative imagery is present, consistent with Islamic numismatic convention. |
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| Mintage | 1235 (1820) - - 1236 (1821) - - 1237 (1822) - - 1238 (1823) - - 1239 (1824) - - 1240 (1825) - - 1241 (1826) - - 1242 (1827) - - 1243 (1828) - - 1243 (1828) - error in date: 3421 - 1244 (1829) - - 1245 (1830) - - |
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The Regency of Algiers operated as an Ottoman tributary state throughout this period, but by 1820 effective authority had long since devolved to the locally elected Dey rather than Constantinople. The coinage reflects this ambiguity — struck nominally in the name of Mahmud II yet produced under a government the Ottomans could barely influence. France's invasion of June 1830 ended the Regency entirely, making the final years of this issue some of the most politically turbulent in the mint's history.
Algiers sultani gold from this decade is notoriously irregular in fabric, a consequence of primitive local striking conditions rather than any central mint discipline.