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20 Para - Mahmud II type A
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | ٢٠ ضرب في طرابلس غرب ١٢٢٣ (Translation: 20 Struck in Tripoli West 1223) |
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Tripoli's billon coinage of this period was struck under nominal Ottoman suzerainty, but the Karamanli dynasty that had ruled the Regency since 1711 operated with near-total autonomy — controlling its own treasury, military, and foreign treaties. By 1808, Yusuf Karamanli was deep in the financial pressures that would eventually culminate in the First Barbary War's aftermath and his dynasty's collapse in 1835. These provincial issues were not coordinated with Istanbul; the Mahmud II attribution reflects titular acknowledgment of the Sultan, not mint direction from the Porte.