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1 Mahaleki - Menelik II
| Issuer | Emirate of Harar |
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| Year | 1893 |
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| Value | 1 Mahaleki |
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| Obverse lettering | ምኒልክ ∷ ንጉሠ : ነገሥት : (Translation: Ruler Menelik, king) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by multiple lines of Ge'ez inscription filling the field, without a central pictorial device. The legends give the Ethiopian Era date (፲፰፻፹፭, corresponding to EE1885/1893 AD), the country name Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), and the denomination (፩ መሐለቅ, 1 Mahaleki). The text is arranged in horizontal registers across the coin's surface, framed by a continuous beaded border along the rim. |
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Harar's monetary history is brief and sharply bounded. The emirate had operated as an independent Islamic city-state until Egyptian occupation in 1875, then fell to Menelik II's forces in 1887, after which it was absorbed into the expanding Ethiopian empire. This coin dates to 1893, six years into that occupation, struck under Menelik's authority but still identified with Harar as a distinct administrative unit — an arrangement that would not survive his 1896 consolidation following the victory at Adwa.
The mahaleki denomination is unique to this issue. KM#1 and the series it opens were short-lived; no successor coinage for Harar as a separate entity followed.