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8 Kharub - Abdulhamid I
| Issuer | Tunisia |
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| Year | 1774-1788 |
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| Value | 8 Kharub (0.5) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1188 (1774) - ١١٨٨ - 1189 (1775) - ١١٨٩ - 1191 (1777) - ١١٩١ - 1192 (1778) - ١١٩٢ - 1193 (1779) - ١١٩٣ - 1194 (1780) - ١١٩٤ - 1195 (1781) - ١١٩٥ - 1196 (1782) - ١١٩٦ - 1197 (1783) - ١١٩٧ - 1198 (1784) - ١١٩٨ - 1199 (1785) - ١١٩٩ - 1201 (1787) - ١٢٠١ - 1202 (1788) - ١٢٠٢ - |
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Abdulhamid I's reign coincided with the declining years of Ottoman fiscal control over its North African regencies, and the billon coinage struck in Tunis during this period reflects that tension directly. The Tunisian regency operated its own mint with considerable autonomy, producing denominations calibrated to local trade rather than Istanbul's monetary system — the kharub series being the clearest expression of that practical independence.
Billon composition varied noticeably across this issue's fourteen-year production window, with silver content dropping as bullion supplies tightened.