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30 Para 'Zolota' - Mahmud II type B
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1810 |
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| Value | 30 Para (0.75) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tripoli's regency coinage occupies an awkward administrative space — nominally Ottoman, practically autonomous. By 1810, the Karamanli dynasty had held effective control of Tripolitania for over a century, extracting tribute from European powers and running its own foreign policy while maintaining the fiction of submission to Istanbul. This coin's Mahmud II attribution reflects that fiction: the sultan's name provides legitimacy, the Tripolitan mint provides the silver.
The 30 para denomination, sometimes recorded as "zolota" from the corrupted Ottoman term, circulated alongside a chaotic mix of Spanish, French, and local issues along the North African coast. KM#174 is among the heavier survivors of this type.