Zeri Mahbub - Abdulhamid I

The Zeri Mahbub — literally "beloved gold piece" — was a Ottoman-derived fractional gold denomination struck across several North African regencies during the 18th century. Tripoli's issues from this reign circulated within a port economy heavily dependent on corsair revenues and trans-Saharan trade, functioning as hard currency in transactions that the copper and silver coinage could not reliably support. The regency under its Karamanli governors operated with considerable autonomy from Istanbul, though coins were struck in the sultan's name as a matter of political protocol rather than financial oversight.

The Pere references distinguish obverse die variants within this type.