1⁄40 Qirsh - Abdul Hamid II

Egypt's small bronze fractions of this period were struck under Ottoman suzerainty but with British financial administration running the country in practice — a dual authority that made even routine coinage decisions politically awkward. The 1/40 qirsh denomination existed primarily to serve the rural poor and urban laborers in a country where wages were measured in fractions of a piastre. Most were struck at the Misr mint in Cairo.

The dual KM references reflect a cataloging split between Ottoman imperial coinage and Egyptian provincial issues — the same physical coin classified differently depending on which authority the cataloger privileges.