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1 Para - Mahmud II reduced size
| Issuer | Regency of Tripoli |
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| Year | 1832 |
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| Currency | Kuruş (1688-1844) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Tripoli |
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Tripoli's copper coinage of this period reflects the crumbling Ottoman grip on the Barbary Coast rather than any coherent monetary policy. The Karamanli dynasty had governed Tripoli as a semi-autonomous regency for over a century, but by 1832 the dynasty was in its final months — Yusuf Karamanli's finances were collapsing under debt and internal revolt, and Ottoman forces would reassert direct control by 1835. KM#81.2 is distinguished from the heavier 81.1 by its reduced flan, a cost-cutting adjustment made as the mint struggled under the regency's fiscal deterioration.