2 Kharub - Abdulaziz and Muhammad III

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.