Algeria AH 1237 budju
This specimen was lot 35206 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $336. The catalog description[1] noted, "ALGERIA. Budju, AH 1237 (1822). Mahmud II. PCGS MS-61." Algeria formed part of the Ottoman Empire from 1518 AD (AH 924). From the sixteenth century until its final suppression in the early nineteenth century, piracy was the main source of revenue for the north African states of Algiers, Tunis and Morocco. Its end weakened those states and made them easy prey for European colonizers, particularly France, which invaded and conquered Algeria in the 1840's. The French found the interior tribesmen extremely obstreperous as had the previous regime, and never succeeded in imposing obedience. This type was struck AH 1236-1245.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 9.8-10.1 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KM-68.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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