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30 Para - Abdulhamid I
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1773 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#51 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field is filled with a three-line Arabic legend in bold, deeply struck characters arranged in horizontal registers. The upper portion carries the imperial title proclaiming sovereignty over the two lands and two seas, while the lower registers bear the dynastic formula identifying the sultan as son of the sultan, together with the regnal year numeral 1. The design is contained within a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Tripoli's regency coinage under Ottoman suzerainty occupied an awkward administrative position — the Karamanli dynasty ran the mint with considerable autonomy while still invoking the sultan's name for legitimacy. Abdulhamid I came to the throne in 1774, which places this piece in the final year of Mustafa III's reign by the Ottoman calendar, a dating discrepancy that has caused persistent misattribution in older references. KM#51 is occasionally confused with issues of the immediately preceding reign precisely because the regency's die-cutting lagged Istanbul's political calendar.