1 Qirsh - Mehmed V

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.