1/3 Budju / Tugrali Batlaka - Mahmud II

The Regency of Algiers occupied an anomalous position in the Ottoman system — nominally subordinate to Constantinople but functionally autonomous, with its Deys holding real power and the Sultan's tughra appearing on coinage more as diplomatic courtesy than assertion of sovereignty. Mahmud II's accession in 1808 followed the violent deposition of Mustafa IV, and the Algerine mint continued issuing fractional silver without interruption, largely indifferent to the succession crisis unfolding across the Mediterranean.

The batlaka denominations were workhorses of local commerce, used heavily in the casbah markets and in transactions with European merchants — French, Genoese, and Livornese traders all circulated through Algiers during this period, before the French bombardment of 1816 began tightening the political vice.