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10 Para - Mahmud II type B
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Value | 10 Para (0.25) |
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| Reverse lettering | سلطان البرين وخاقان البحرين ١٦ السلطان ابن السلطان (Translation: Sultan of the 2 lands and 2 seas The Sultan, son of the Sultan 16) |
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| Mint | Tripoli (Tarabulus Gharb) |
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The Regency of Tripoli operated under nominal Ottoman suzerainty but was effectively controlled by the Karamanli dynasty throughout the early nineteenth century. This issue dates to the first year of Mahmud II's reign — a sultan who would spend much of his rule trying to reassert central authority over semi-autonomous provinces like Tripoli, a project that succeeded there only in 1835 when Ottoman forces expelled the last Karamanli governor.
The "type B" distinction for KM#156 reflects die variations in the toughra rendering documented across Tripolitanian issues of this period.