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10 Asper - Mahmud II
| Issuer | Regency of Algiers |
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| Year | 1822 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Algiers Mint |
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The Regency of Algiers occupied an awkward constitutional position by the early 1820s — nominally Ottoman territory, in practice an autonomous state run by a dey whose authority rested on the Janissary corps and piracy revenues. Mahmud II's tughra on this copper issue reflects that fiction of suzerainty more than any real administrative control from Constantinople. French forces would end the Regency entirely in 1830, just eight years after this coin was struck.