Commemorative Medals, Algeria, Al Amir Abd-el-Kader (1807-1883), copper tribute medal, 1846, by Adolphe Christian Jouvenal, bust l., wearing Arabicic robes, AJ monogram to r., rev. biographical legend in eighteen lines ending with ...BATTLE OF D'JEMMA GHAZOUAT, 57mm (BDM III, 90; Escande-24), good very fine
Abd-el-Kader was the political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion and occupation of Algeria, c. 1834-47 and is considered as the founder of the modern country, He died in Damascus in 1883.
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