Three Sudanese 20-piastre coins

Item

Title

Three Sudanese 20-piastre coins
money

Subject

Sudan; loot; campaign mementoes; ethnography; World Cultures
Ephemera

Description

Three Sudanese 20-piastre coins of mixed copper and silver, struck in AH 1311 (15 July 1893—5 July 1894) and 1312 (5 July 1894—24 June 1895) at the Omdurman mint under the jurisdiction of the Khalīfa’s Treasury (beit al-māl) [DS/FN/ON 11/2020]
Top left:

GGC212a: Reverse: ʿaz naṣru (“may His victory be glorified”) ḍarab fī umdurmān 1311 (“struck in Omdurman AH 1311”) within border of small roses and inward-facing crescent moons and stars

GGC212b: Obverse: ʿumla jadīda (“new coinage”) sana (“year”) also within border of small roses and inward-facing crescent moons and stars
Top right:

GGC212a: Obverse: ʿumla jadīda (“new coinage”) sana (“year”) within border of small roses and inward-facing crescent moons and stars

GGC212b: Reverse: ʿaz naṣru (“May His victory be glorified”) ḍarab fī umdurmān 1312 (“struck in Omdurman AH 1312”) also within border of small roses and inward-facing crescent moons and stars
Bottom:

GGC212a: Obverse: maqbūl (“accepted”) 20 sh [abbreviation for qurush, “piastres”?] under three clusters of roses and a spray of foliage, above symmetrical sprays of foliage and flowers

GGC212b: Reverse: 12 ḍarab fī umdurmān 1312 (“12 struck in Omdurman AH 1312”) between sprays of foliage and flowers, with crossed spears below and three roses at the top

(Note: This design was copied from the coins of the Egyptian Khedive Muḥammad Ṭawfīq, see H.S. Job, ‘The Coinage of the Mahdi and the Khalifa’, Sudan Notes and Records 3 (1920): 163-196.)

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

1896
1898

Format

Diameter 34mm
metal

Identifier

GGC212

Space/Place

Sudan

Rights

© Royal Engineers Museum

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