1 Para - Mahmud II reduced size

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.