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Sultani - Suleiman II
| Issuer | Regency of Tripoli |
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| Year | 1688 |
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| Value | Sultani (8) |
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| Obverse lettering | سليمان |
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| Mint | Tripoli |
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Tripoli's regency coinage of this period occupied an awkward political position — nominally Ottoman, practically autonomous, and perpetually negotiating both. Suleiman II came to the throne in 1687 after his brother Mehmed IV was deposed by the Janissaries, having spent 39 years confined in the kafes, the Ottoman palace cage system for sequestering princes from succession intrigues. His reign lasted only four years.
KM#18 is among the scarcer provincial gold issues of the late 17th-century Maghreb, with Tripolitanian mint output dwarfed by the major Ottoman centers at Constantinople and Cairo.