1/10 Qirsh - Mehmed V

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.