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1/10 Qirsh - Mehmed V
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1910-1913 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | عز نصره ضرب في مصر عشر القرش ١ ١٣٢٧ H (Translation: May he be victorious Struck in Egypt 1 tenth of a Qirsh 1327 H) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Egypt's small-denomination coinage of this period was issued under Ottoman suzerainty but administered through the British occupation that had been in place since 1882 — an awkward dual authority that made Mehmed V's tughra appearing on Egyptian coins something of a political fiction. By 1910, effective monetary policy ran through Cairo's Egyptian government, not Constantinople.
The copper-nickel alloy adopted for these fractional pieces replaced an earlier bronze series, a deliberate shift intended to reduce counterfeiting of low-value coins that had plagued the previous issue.