4 Kharub - Abdulmecid I

Tunisia in 1840 was nominally Ottoman territory but functionally autonomous under the Husainid beys, a dynamic that produced a distinctive dual-authority coinage — Ottoman tughra alongside Tunisian regnal references — that satisfied Istanbul without surrendering local administrative identity. Abdulmecid I had ascended the Ottoman throne just a year earlier, in 1839, meaning this issue was among the first Tunisian coins to bear his cipher.

Billon coinage of this type circulated hard in the Tunisian interior and shows it. Survivors in problem-free condition are genuinely scarce.