10 Francs - Ahmad II Obverse Essai

Ahmad II Pasha Bey ruled Tunisia under the French Protectorate, and essais of this period were struck at the Paris Mint as trial pieces for proposed circulating coinage — submitted for administrative approval before production was authorized. The Lec#316a reference places this within Leconte's classification of French colonial and protectorate essais, a category notoriously difficult to census given their limited institutional distribution and the near-total absence of public sale records from the era.

The unresolved KM designation reflects how thinly documented these Tunisian protectorate trials remain in mainstream references.