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100 Rial - Abdulaziz and Muhammad III Pattern
| Issuer | Tunisia |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Currency | Rial (1567-1891) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the three-line Arabic legend naming Sultan Abdulaziz Khan, enclosed within a finely engraved wreath of laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The wreath terminates at the apex in a symmetrical foliate motif. The coin is bordered by a continuous raised beaded rim. The design is purely epigraphic, with no portrait or figural element, in keeping with Ottoman-Husainid numismatic tradition. |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a four-line Arabic legend identifying the Bey Muhammad al-Sadiq, the mint city of Tunis, the denomination of 100 Rials, and the Hijri date 1281, all enclosed within an olive-branch wreath tied at the base with a ribbon bow. A small tughra-like device surmounts the wreath at the apex. The raised beaded rim encircles the entire design, consistent with the obverse treatment of this pattern piece. |
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This copper pattern was produced in 1865 during a turbulent stretch of Tunisian financial history — the Bey Ahmad ibn Mustafa had already driven the beylik into catastrophic debt financing his modernization program, and by 1869 Tunisia would declare bankruptcy and submit to an international financial commission. Patterns like this one reflect the monetary experimentation of a government scrambling for viable coinage solutions before that collapse arrived. The Pn12 designation confirms it never progressed to circulation.