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ALGERIA: AE medal, ND (1845)

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ALGERIA: AE medal, ND (1845)
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ALGERIA: AE medal, ND (1845), Escande-24, 57.70mm, medal engraved by Adolphe Christian Jouvenel; portrait left in traditional clothes, text on reverse of his military campaign, variation with text in French, Extremely Fine. Emir Abd al-Qadir (1808-1883) was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-nineteenth century, for which he is seen by some Algerians as a national hero. In France, after having been considered as an enemy during the first half of the 19th century, he became considered as a "friend of France" after having intervened in favor of persecuted Christians in Syria in 1860.