5 Qirsh - Abdulmecid I

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背面描述	The reverse bears a three-line Arabic inscription in elegant Naskh script, reading 'ضرب في مصر' (Struck in Egypt) in the upper portion, with the regnal year appearing above and the AH accession date '١٢٥٥' (1255) displayed prominently in the lower field. The legends are arranged centrally within a plain field, enclosed by a milled border along the rim.
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背面铭文	١ ضرب في مصر ١٢٥٥ (Translation: 1 Struck in Egypt 1255)
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附加信息	Abdülmecid I ascended the Ottoman throne in July 1839 at sixteen years old, within weeks of his father Mahmud II's death and amid a catastrophic military defeat at Nizip that left the empire's future genuinely uncertain. Egyptian coinage of this moment carries that instability: the autonomous province under Mehmed Ali had just crushed Ottoman forces, and it was European diplomatic intervention — not military recovery — that preserved the empire's nominal authority over Egypt. This coin belongs to that uneasy interval before the 1840 Convention of London forced Mehmed Ali's hand. The .833 fineness was a deliberate step down from earlier Ottoman silver standards, part of broader fiscal adjustments that would accelerate through Abdülmecid's reign.

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