5 Centimes - Ahmad II

Ahmad II ibn Muhammad held the beyship of Tunisia as a French protectorate figure with little autonomous authority, and the coinage issued under his name reflected that arrangement — struck in Paris, denominated in the French system, and answering ultimately to the Résidence Générale rather than the Husainid court. The nickel-brass alloy used for this series was a deliberate French monetary policy choice of the interwar period, substituting base metal for the bronze previously used in small denomination colonial issues.