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31/4 Nasri - Abdulmecid I and Muhammad II thin legend
| Issuer | Beylik of Tunis |
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| Year | 1856-1857 |
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| Currency | Rial (1567-1891) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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This piece belongs to the brief window when Tunisian coinage carried dual authority — the Ottoman sultan Abdulmecid I alongside the Husainid bey Muhammad II, a pairing that reflected the carefully maintained fiction of Ottoman suzerainty over a state that had been effectively self-governing for over a century. The "thin legend" variety distinguishes this from KM#112.2, a die difference significant enough to warrant separate catalog treatment but rarely explained in collection notes.
By 1856, the Bardo reform process was accelerating. The Fundamental Pact of 1857 would arrive within months of this coin's production.