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2 Kharub - Abdulaziz and Muhammad III
| Issuer | Tunisia |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Value | 2 Kharub (1/8) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend reading 'Sultan Abdulaziz Khan', enclosed within a raised inner circle. The legend is surrounded by an open olive or laurel wreath tied at the base with a decorative knot, the branches sweeping symmetrically around the circumference. The overall design is purely epigraphic, with no portrait or figurative elements, characteristic of Ottoman-era Tunisian coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1281 (1865) - ۱۲۸۱ (thick planchet) - 1281 (1865) - ۱۲۸۱ (thin planchet) - 12,000,000 |
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This issue dates to the brief window when Tunisia operated under a dual-authority arrangement — the Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz recognized nominally as suzerain while the Husainid bey Muhammad III al-Sadiq exercised effective domestic rule. The 1864 tribal revolt, which erupted in direct response to a doubling of the head tax, had severely strained the bey's treasury and forced a foreign loan the following year that effectively initiated Tunisia's slide into French financial supervision by the 1870s.
KM#156 copper issues from this period circulated into a badly disrupted economy.