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10 Para - Mahmud II type B
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#201 |
| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the elaborate tughra of Sultan Mahmud II, rendered in stylised Ottoman calligraphy with characteristic looped and scrolled strokes. A crescent is positioned to the upper right of the tughra. Below the tughra, the mint name Tripoli West (Tarabulus Gharb) and the regnal year 1223 AH are inscribed in Arabic script. The entire design is contained within a plain inner circle and surrounded by a dotted border. |
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| Obverse lettering | محمود ضرب في طرابلس غرب ١٢٢٣ (Translation: Mahmud Struck in Tripoli West 1223) |
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The Regency of Tripoli operated under nominal Ottoman suzerainty but by 1808 had been governed autonomously by the Karamanli dynasty for over a century. Coins issued under Mahmud II's name from Tripoli were a political formality as much as a monetary one — acknowledging the sultan's legitimacy while the Karamanlis ran their own fiscal affairs, including profits from Mediterranean corsair activity that the 1805 Treaty with the United States had only partially curtailed.