1 Fals - Anonymous Al-Sultaniyya al-Mujahidiyya

The Sultanate of Mogadishu was already in steep decline by the sixteenth century, squeezed by the rising Ajuran Sultanate inland and the destabilizing pressure of Portuguese naval operations along the East African coast. Anonymous copper fulus of this type were the lowest denomination in circulation — the small change of a port economy that had, in earlier centuries, impressed Ibn Battuta enough to call Mogadishu one of the largest cities in the world. By 1500, that peak was well past. Album 1176 is among the least documented issues in the entire corpus of medieval Somali coinage.