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1/4 Budju - Selim III
| Issuer | Algiers, Regency of |
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| Year | 1790-1806 |
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| Value | 1/4 Budju |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Irregularly shaped hammered flan enclosed by a continuous beaded border following the coin's uneven periphery. The field displays a multi-line Arabic legend in thuluth script arranged in horizontal registers, with the mint name Jaza'ir (Algiers) positioned in the upper register and the AH regnal year inscribed in the lower register. The bold calligraphic letterforms are deeply struck and characteristic of Algerian Regency hammered coinage of the late 18th to early 19th century. |
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The Regency of Algiers operated as a semi-autonomous Ottoman province run by a succession of deys — military commanders whose authority over coinage was largely independent of Constantinople by the late eighteenth century. Selim III's reign coincided with his ambitious Nizam-ı Cedid reform program, but those modernizing pressures barely reached Algiers, where the mint continued issuing silver on its own schedule and to its own standards.
The budju and its fractions were the dominant silver currency of the Regency, accepted across the western Mediterranean in trade with European merchants who dealt regularly with Algerian corsairs and their patrons.