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25 Rial - Abdulaziz and Muhammad III
| Issuer | Tunisia |
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| Year | 1862-1874 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | محمد مدة الصادق بتونس ٢٥ ١٢٨۹ (Translation: During the regency of Mohammed Sadiq in Tunis 25 1289) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Tunisia's bimetallic coinage reform of the 1860s was driven largely by French financial pressure and the terms of the 1863 loan negotiated by the Husainid bey Sadok with a Paris banking consortium. That loan, catastrophically mismanaged, led directly to the 1864 tribal uprising and ultimately to Tunisia's declaration of bankruptcy in 1869 — making the broader series to which this piece belongs a numismatic footnote to one of the 19th century's more consequential North African fiscal collapses. The joint-name format, citing both the Ottoman sultan and the reigning bey, reflects the careful choreography of nominal suzerainty that Tunis maintained with Constantinople.