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1 Rial - Mahmud II
| Issuer | Tunisian Regency (Ottoman Province) |
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| Year | 1810-1819 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a lobed cartouche of polyfoil form enclosing the mint name and AH date in two lines of Arabic script, reading 'Struck in Tunis' above the Hijri year. A small floral or tughra ornament appears at the base of the cartouche, and a decorative knot motif is positioned at the apex. The entire design is framed by a beaded inner border and a dentilated outer rim consistent with the obverse. |
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The Tunisian Regency's billon coinage of this period reflects a monetary system under perpetual strain — chronic silver shortages forced the Husainid beys to issue increasingly debased alloys throughout the early nineteenth century, and the rial denomination bore the brunt of that debasement. Mahmud II had little direct control over Tunisian fiscal policy; the beys operated with substantial autonomy, and local mint decisions were effectively theirs to make.
KM#82 spans nearly a decade of production, meaning examples vary considerably in die quality and alloy consistency across the run.