Numismatic Auction #22

TRIPOLI: Mahmud II, 1808-1839, BI 20 para (6.87g), Tarabulus Gharb, AH1223 year 7, KM-137, UBK-119.02, slight weakness in strike, otherwise very attractive, with much of the original silver-wash, EF, RRR, ex Ken Bovenkamp collection, ex our Auction 14, Lot 464. This piece has a star rather than a sprig at the upper left of the obverse, thus as KM-137 rather than KM-136, but KM-137 and its equivalent, UBK-119.02, are both listed only for year 8. The listing of year 7 for KM-136 is also correct, as is clear in the KM photo. This variety is probably unpublished, or at least never recorded in the principal catalogs.