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| Issuer | Algiers, Regency of |
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| Year | 1603-1610 |
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| Value | 1 Sultani (4.5) |
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| Obverse description | Densely packed Arabic calligraphic legend filling the entire field in multiple interlocking lines, executed in the Ottoman tughra-influenced script style typical of Algerian regency coinage. The inscription, rendered in relief against a flat ground, occupies the full flan with no border separating legend from edge. The irregular coin flan, characteristic of hammered gold coinage of this period, is bordered by a faint beaded or dotted rim. The calligraphy flows in an ornate, overlapping fashion consistent with early 17th-century North African Islamic monetary art. |
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| Obverse lettering | ضرب في الجزائر |
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| Edge | Plain |
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