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Mangir - Mehmed IV
| Issuer | Tripoli, Regency of |
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| Year | 1683-1687 |
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| Weight | 1.34 g |
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| Reverse lettering | غرب ٩۴ (Translation: West 94) |
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| Mintage | ND - 6 pointed star - ND - hexagram ++ 40 - 1094 (1683) - ٩۴ - 1095 (1684) - ٩٥ - 1097 (1686) - ٩٧ - 1098 (1687) - ٩٨ - |
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The Regency of Tripoli occupied an awkward position within the Ottoman fiscal system — nominally subordinate to Constantinople but operationally independent enough to strike its own copper coinage for local petty transactions. Mehmed IV's reign saw the empire stretched thin by the disastrous siege of Vienna in 1683 and its aftermath, which likely disrupted the flow of small change from central mints. Provincial copper of this type filled the gap.
KM#7 mangirs from Tripoli are poorly documented in terms of surviving population, and die workmanship varies considerably across the type.