Algiers AH 1154 1/4 sultani
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This specimen was lot 428 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $600. The catalog description[1] noted, "ALGIERS: Mahmud I, 1730-1754, AV ¼ sultani, Jaza'ir, AH1154, a superb mint state quality example! NGC graded MS63." Friedberg lists no gold coins for Algeria prior to Mahmud II (r. 1808-37). The sultani may have been intended to compete with the Venetian ducat familiar throughout the Mediterranean but we doubt the bey had access to enough gold to make a serious dent. This type was struck years 1144-1168 plus 1171 (posthumous).
Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.
Specification: 0.75-0.85 g, gold.
Catalog reference: Fr-26, KM-18.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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