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Sultani - Suleiman I
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1520 |
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| Currency | Akçe (1551-1687) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field filled with a multi-line Arabic inscription in thuluth script, presenting the mint name, regnal year, and additional Ottoman titulature. The text is arranged in horizontal registers within a plain linear border, with the mint name of Tripoli (طرابلس) and the accession year 926 AH legible in the lower portion of the field. The flan is irregular and the strike is characteristically off-center, consistent with hammered Ottoman gold coinage of this period. |
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Suleiman I's accession in 1520 triggered a rapid reissuance of coinage across Ottoman territories, including the North African regencies that had only recently come under nominal Ottoman suzerainty. Tripoli at this date was not yet the firmly administered eyalet it would become — Ottoman control was loose, contested by the Hafsids to the west and residual Spanish influence from their 1510 garrison.
Artuk 1571 is among the scarcer provincial sultani attributions from Suleiman's opening regnal year.