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10 Para - Selim III
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1796-1802 |
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| Weight | 3.30 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب في طرابلس غرب ١٢١٠ (Translation: Struck in Tripoli West 1210) |
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| Mintage | 1210 (1796) - ١٢١٠ - 1210 (1796) ☾ - ١٢١٠//☾ (upwards crescent instead of regnal year) - 1210 (1796) ♦ - ١٢١٠//♦ (diamond shape instead of regnal year) - 1210 (1796) ٧ - ٧//١٢١٠ (2-petal flower instead of regnal year) - 1212 (1797) - ١٢١٢ - 1203 (1798) 10 - ١٠//١٢٠٣ - 1213 (1798) - ١٢١٣ - 1214 (1799) - ١٢١٤ - 1203 (1802) 14 - ١٤//١٢٠٣ - |
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Tripoli's regency coinage under Selim III occupied an awkward monetary position: nominally Ottoman in authority, but struck locally with enough variation that individual pieces can differ substantially in silver fineness and flan preparation. The Karamanli dynasty, which had seized effective control of the regency in 1711, used the coinage primarily to assert local legitimacy while maintaining just enough formal deference to Constantinople to avoid suppression.
The date range spanning Selim III's reform period is worth noting — his Nizam-ı Cedid military and fiscal restructuring created pressures on provincial mints that manifested unevenly across the empire's periphery.