30 Para - Mahmud II type A, without lozenge

Tripoli's regency operated with substantial autonomy from Istanbul throughout the early nineteenth century, and its coinage reflects that independence in practice if not in theory. The Karamanli dynasty, which governed Tripoli from 1711 until the Ottoman reconquest of 1835, issued coins nominally in the sultan's name while running fiscal policy almost entirely on its own terms. Billon issues of this period circulated alongside Spanish reales and other Mediterranean trade coinage, often at exchange rates set unilaterally by the regency's own treasury.

The absence of the lozenge ornament distinguishes this from the type B variety — a small but catalogically meaningful difference that likely reflects a die progression rather than a deliberate policy change.