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1 Qirsh - Mehmed V
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1910-1913 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1327 (1910) H - ٢ (mintage in 1910) - 1,000,000 1327 (1911) - ٣ (mintage in 1911) - 300,000 1327 (1911) H - ٤ (mintage in 1911) - 500,000 1327 (1913) H - ٦ (mintage in 1913) - 2,500,000 |
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Mehmed V acceded to the Ottoman throne in 1909 following the deposition of his brother Abdülhamid II by the Young Turk revolution — making this among the first Egyptian coinage to bear his name. Egypt's nominal vassalage to the Porte was already a legal fiction by this point; effective authority rested with the British occupation that had been in place since 1882. The copper-nickel qirsh issues of this period circulated alongside a fragmented monetary environment that included British, Ottoman, and locally-struck pieces.
Britain formally declared Egypt a protectorate in December 1914, rendering this short emission politically obsolete almost immediately after its final year of issue.