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1 Dinar - al-Mu'azzam Turanshah al-Qahira
| Issuer | Emirate of Hisn Kayfa |
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| Year | 1250 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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| Mintage | 648 (1250) - Unique |
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Turanshah's reign lasted roughly three months. He was murdered in May 1250 by the Mamluk commanders he had just alienated — including Baybars, who struck him personally — after foolishly threatening to replace the very officers who had defeated Louis IX's crusade at the Battle of Fariskur weeks earlier. Coins struck in his name at al-Qahira during this window are among the most chronologically compressed dynastic issues in Ayyubid numismatics.
Hisn Kayfa, the Ayyubid sub-sultanate centered on the fortress above the Tigris in southeastern Anatolia, continued issuing dinars in his name into the brief transitional period before the line reorganized under a new amir.