Algiers AH 1240 kharub
This specimen was lot 2052 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "ALGIERS: Mahmud II, 1808-1839, BI kharub, Jaza'ir, AH1240, toned obverse, wonderful state of preservation, XF-AU, R." 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 1237-1242 by the bey of Algiers.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.70-.080 g, billon.
Catalog reference: KM-73.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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