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100 Rial - Abdulmecid I and Muhammad II
| Issuer | Beylik of Tunis |
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| Year | 1856-1858 |
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| Currency | Rial (1567-1891) |
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| Obverse lettering | السلطان الغازي عبد المجيد خان (Translation: Sultan Al-Ghazi Abdulmecid Khan) |
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| Mintage | 1272 (1856) - ١٢٧٢ - 1273 (1857) - ١٢٧٣ - 1274 (1858) - ١٢٧۴ - |
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The Beylik of Tunis occupied an increasingly precarious position through the 1850s — nominally Ottoman, practically autonomous, and under mounting pressure from French and British creditors. The 100 Rial issues of this period reflect the dual-sovereignty fiction maintained by Husainid beys: Ottoman sultan's name carried on Tunisian coinage as a gesture of suzerainty, while actual fiscal and administrative authority remained in Tunis. The arrangement satisfied protocol without surrendering control.
KM#130 corresponds to issues spanning the reigns of both Abdulmecid I and his successor Abdul Aziz — Muhammad II ibn Husayn serving continuously as Bey throughout. The overlapping reign attribution accounts for the date range rather than any change in Tunisian governance.