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10 Qirsh - Abdulmecid I
| Issuer | Egypt |
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| Year | 1839 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ١٠ ش (Translation: 10 Qirsh) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abdülmecid I had been sultan for less than a year when this coin was struck, having ascended the Ottoman throne at seventeen following Mahmud II's death in July 1839 — the same summer Egypt's forces under Ibrahim Pasha had just crushed the Ottoman army at Nizip. The Egyptian issue bearing his tughra was politically loaded: Mehmed Ali's Egypt was technically a vassal striking coin in the suzerain's name while simultaneously routing his armies.
The 1839 coinage also coincided with the promulgation of the Hatt-ı Şerif of Gülhane, the opening salvo of the Tanzimat reform edicts.