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5 Qirsh - Abdullah without denomination
| Issuer | Mahdist State of Sudan |
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| Year | 1887-1894 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field contains a three-line Arabic legend recording the regnal year (١١), the mint formula (ضرب في أم درمان — Struck in Omdurman), and the Hijri date (١٣١١), all inscribed within a plain inner circle. The border replicates the obverse ornamental design of oval leaf-and-pellet elements joined by small rings, with four-pointed stars interspersed at intervals around the periphery. |
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The Mahdist State struck coins under an ideological framework that explicitly rejected the Ottoman-Egyptian monetary system it had overthrown. Abdullah ibn Muhammad, the Khalifa who succeeded the Mahdi after his death in 1885, oversaw a coinage program that was deliberately austere — the omission of the denomination on this type was not an oversight but consistent with a broader rejection of worldly administrative convention. Billon itself signals chronic silver shortages; the state was economically isolated and under near-constant military pressure from Egyptian and British forces throughout this entire period.